Currently, the Vector 2022 skin is the second most-popular non-default skin on English Wikipedia. It is also in use as the default across over 20 community-led projects accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month, such as French Wikipedia, where it has been the default since 2020.
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The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users on desktop. To do this, the skin introduces changes to the navigation and layout of the site, adds persistent elements such as a sticky header and Table of Contents to make frequently used actions easier to access, and makes some changes to the overall styling of the page. The analysis of the data collected concluded that these changes improve readability and usability, and save time currently spent in scrolling, searching, and navigating – all of which can be interpreted to create an easier reading experience. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
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Below, you'll find more details on how the skin was built over the past three years, what has been changed, and why these changes are considered to be improvements based on the completed research and data collected.