After ten years, Wikipedia will redesign its website

It's been ten years since Wikipedia last decided to make changes to the interface of its website, a time frame that is about to end after the Wikimedia Foundation's decision to change the design of the desktop version of the most famous online encyclopedia. 

However, the changes will come gradually through the addition of new features and small changes that will end by the end of 2021, in time to celebrate the site's twentieth birthday. At the moment there are few clues as to what we will see in the coming months, but Wikimedia's intention is to make the site more intuitive without changing the historical structure of the encyclopedia. 

Among the innovations already confirmed there is a new retractable sidebar, but above all a resizing of the main pages that have not failed to generate controversy even among the major contributors of the site. The choice of language also changes, passing from the bottom of the page to the top. 

As declared also by project manager Olga Vasileva “while Wikipedia’s content has grown rapidly, our interface has not kept pace.” Vasileva continued, “the design of desktop Wikipedia [has] not seen any substantive changes for the past 10 years, leaving certain elements of the site’s navigation feeling clunky and overwhelming."