[Wikipedia-l] Re: the default font size on Chinese Wikipedia

Thu Jun 3 06:09:01 UTC 2004

yuanml wrote:
> Menchi had mentioned this point on Wikitech-l:
> 
> "Chinese characters have many many more strokes than Roman letters. So
> the current MonoBook font size at Chinese WP is very hard on the eye."
> 
> "Almost every single Chinese user who experienced the skin have pointed
> out that the font size's difficult to read."
> 
> So it is not a problem for one user's preference, but a problem for the site.
> 
> Please change the default size to 11pt which is adopted by most portals.

I've changed it to "medium", which is apparently the browser default. If
you don't agree with this choice, you can fix it yourself using a new
feature:

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki%3AMonobook.css

This stylesheet is editable by sysops.

-- Tim Starling