On Sunday, several dozen Wikipedia editors nursed cocktails in midtown Manhattan at the afterparty for Wikipedia Day, the annual celebration of Wikipedia’s Jan. 14, 2001, founding.Gathered on a leather couch, speaking loudly over the DJ’s groovy music, their conversation meandered from class-action lawsuits against a water park to bird photography to Vector 2022, Wikipedia’s first big redesign in 12 years, set to debut as the default on English Wikipedia on Wednesday.The paid design team regularly meets for office-hour video calls with interested volunteers, and since the skin was proposed in 2019, Wikipedians have spilled more than 200,000 words on the page for Vector 2022 feedback, offering suggestions and criticism—meaning that there’s a corpus longer than Jane Eyre (and almost as long as Moby-Dick) about button positioning and table formatting.At Wikimania in 2012, the same year that founder Jimmy Wales named him staff member of the year, he presented a few ideas for a more user-friendly layout called Athena, which he eventually turned into a working prototype named Winter.I don’t really care.” She took Jorm’s principles and built a skin called Timeless, which you can choose by navigating to “Preferences” and then “Appearance.” True to its name, Timeless has been a cult favorite among Wikipedia users who appreciate its color, prominent display of editing tools, and mobile formatting."