Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized - For Chrome

Wikipedia is a world renown website, and it is the archetypical encyclopedia website, containing knowledge of anything from history, science, pop-culture, and fiction.  Given its importance, more than a few developers have tried to make it look more and more appealing to the general public.  Aside from text rearrangement and some color themes, few managed to do anything significant. However, once in a while, there comes an app, theme, or in this case, a browser extension that completely changes the look and feels of Wikipedia, making it look as modern as ever while bringing additional functionality to it.

Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized is an extension for the Google Chrome browser who's role is to completely overhaul the way your Wikipedia pages look, feel and behave. The traditional black on white texts stay the same, yet everything is arranged in a more modern and minimalist fashion, befitting the year that we are currently in. Besides the font change, color palette and the rearrangement of certain UI elements, the extension also brings some extra tools that will make your Wikipedia browsing more efficient.

Pages of interest can now be saved in a bookmark fashion which is bound to your Facebook account. More so, you can switch to the default view, edit or even gain access to the discussion forums all through one simple sub-menu A page's language can now be switched easily from a drop-down menu, so you no longer have to change the URL's domain name. Those of you that are picky about the way they like to read their Wikipedia pages will be overjoyed to hear that there is also a sub-menu dedicated to customizing your page. This includes switching between a light and dark theme, change of font style or size.

While there are plenty of Wikipedia customizers out there, most of them only do a fraction of what Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized can do. This makes it a complete package for when you want to completely change the way you read your favorite articles from the world's most famous online encyclopedia.

For those that prefer the Mozilla Firefox browser, you'll be delighted to know that there is also a Firefox version of this extension.