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Not that it matters to most people, but I'm surprised this didn't break the Dictionary app on my 10-year-old version of OS X (10.9 Mavericks). Wikipedia inside the Dictionary app looks basically identical to how it did a week ago, even though aiui it's basically just rendering the Wikipedia page (in a now terribly outdated browser engine) with some custom CSS. I wonder why it's still working.


Oops, I'm an idiot, the new theme isn't the default yet!


just tested this, and it seems to be the default (at least when i navigate to the english-language wikipedia in a new incognito browser tab).

Dictionary app still seems to be working fine, though.

my guess here would be that they probably don't access the HTML at all, but instead go through MediaWiki's API.




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