Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Reporting/en.wikipedia.org/Archive 2

✅2025 NBA All-Star Game dark mode error

in dark mode on some tables go full white colour and cant see anything

Portal/testcases dark mode error

Issue Description

Icons for Athletics portal, Music portal, Medicine portal, and probably others.

The images can be edited at:

w:Module:Portal/images/a/sandbox

["athletics"] = "Athletics pictogram.svg|link=|alt=",

but we can't just add a |class=skin-invert-image because the module adds |class=noviewer a bit further in the code. The code would have to merge both to be |class=noviewer skin-invert-image in those cases.

local image = string.format('[[File:%s|32x28px|class=noviewer]]',fn)

But this module is used in 10M articles (17% of the total), so changes there are quite delicate.

There is also the need to review all the images used to check if only skin-invert-image would be sufficient to solve all cases, as some maybe better just with a white background.

There are also other templates using those images, like w:Module:Portal-inline and w:Module:Portal bar that would need to be reviewed.

I'm short on time, maybe I can take a deeper look at this later. --Arthurfragoso (talk) 15:46, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Samsung Galaxy Tab dark mode error

Website too big So the issue is that this website has a list that so wide it making reading much harder

Pichilemu dark mode error

Issue Description

It is the same as in Bel Air, Los Angeles, see below. But the difference is that the pin label is black on black even in desktop view, not just in mobile view.

Bel Air, Los Angeles dark mode error

Issue Description

The pin label on the location map has a black background, so nothing is readable. The problem only occurs in mobile view.

Main Page dark mode error

Issue Description The search box is missing.

Legislative Assembly of Ontario dark mode error

Issue Description w:Legislative Assembly of Ontario#Summary of seat changes On dark mode the text in the table is gray. This means that there is gray text on a black background which is really hard to read.

Deccan Traps dark mode error

The words "Deccan Traps" on the map cannot be clearly seen in dark mode. DuckingDavid (talk) 23:42, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Cupertino, California dark mode error

Issue Description

Map of the city had the name of the city highlighted in black. Section: infobox

Preferences dark mode error

Issue Description The empty spaces of certain tables still appear white (as if blending in with the standard white background) when in dark mode

Preferences dark mode error

Dark mode too dark :) Apologies, this might seem pedantic. Could you offer a "semi-dark" mode as well (or adjust current dark mode)? Many websites use a very dark blue, for example, instead of dark which makes the contrast a bit too much. Thanks for your work! --Transparentar (talk) 17:23, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

✅Files for upload dark mode error

Issue Description Dark Mode causes the Images For Upload Wizard to display improperly and makes all of the text in the wizard almost impossible to read. Moreover, the background also stays white, even when switching from Light Mode to Dark Mode.

✅ Rice's whale dark mode error

Issue Description Whale images in the Phylogeny section are nearly invisible. I tried to fix with <span class="skin-invert-image" /> but I wasn't sure where to put it exactly. Frank Geerlings (talk) 20:53, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/332 dark mode error

Issue Description

The inset section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Meetup/332#Redlists_(lists_of_redlinked_articles_to_be_created) contains text that does not change to a lighter color when using dark mode. – OdinintheNorth (talk) 14:51, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

fixed Matrix (talk) 21:53, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Mirsarai dark mode error

Issue Description The highlight color of the label text on the map makes the text difficult to read.

@Antimattur: For me it is simply black text. What color do you see the text in ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 10:50, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

It's in automatic mode Matrix (talk) 21:51, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Preferences dark mode issue

White text on black background is just as contrasting and almost worse than light mode. Please make options for choosing a mute grey background

Comparison of web browsers dark mode error

Issue Description Its not

Doriane Pin dark mode error

Issue Description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doriane_Pin#Complete_Le_Mans_Cup_results

Text between races 1 and 12 is unreadable

The below source text makes text unreadable in dark mode

|style="background:#;"

@31.205.0.196: Fixed by making this change. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:36, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

✅ Otaku dark mode error

Issue Description The "part of a series on" text in the series box becomes unreadable because the text (which is on a light background) changes to white while the background does not change

@AKASomeone: Fixed with this change. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:34, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Honda automobile timeline, European market, 1990–present dark mode error

Issue Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Honda_automobile_timeline,_European_market,_1990%E2%80%93present

Hello Wikipedia Team, I am grateful that youse have implemented a Dark mode to Wikipedia, however, I cannot read templates in Dark mode. The titles are white on light gray (unreadable), the boxes are light blue on light gray (also unreadable), I have been using the highlighting with my mouse to get any usable contrast out of these templates to read them. Please fix this by making everything white/blue on very very dark grey/black, or something with a similar contrast.

For reference, my Appearance settings are Small test, Wide width, and the Dark colour mode (Small text is otherwise fully readable everywhere else, and in Light mode too).

Thanks, rossihere

@Rossihere: I have reported this to the page of the template in question: en:Template_talk:Navbox_timeline#Dark_mode. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Cheers Rossihere (talk) 17:09, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

✅ Current events dark mode error

Issue Description The color is fine. However, the screen is not going into wide mode. This occurred in both the home page and the Current Events Portal.

Taipei 101 dark mode error

Tower logo in infobox doesn't display well in dark mode. It has a transparent background and assumes a light background. – OdinintheNorth (talk) 00:47, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Dark mode error

Issue Description Simple request: Have the same logo appear for Wikipedia on dark mode. Seeing the inverted version is weird and gives the impression of something going wrong (why it works for Testpedia). - Klein Muçi (talk) 17:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi You have to be more specific. If you see a color-shifted inverted logo, that is probably because the non-inverted version is not dark mode compatible and no one created a inverted version by hand yet. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 21:35, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Ah... I thought it was a global thing. I was talking about the Albanian Wikipedia. - Klein Muçi (talk) 22:08, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Upon further inspection I see that it IS a global thing. Every Wikipedia has a logo with inverted colors in their dark mode version. That is what I'm proposing to change. - Klein Muçi (talk) 22:23, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

✅ I Corps (Grande Armée) dark mode error

Issue Description The heading for 'order of battle' is incredibly difficult to read as it is a slightly lighter shade of grey, and hitting show for the order of battle also yields a list that is extremely hard to read.

Community response to the Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram dark mode error

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_ban_of_Fram

This page has black on brown/green/black text, making some of it difficult to read, and most of it impossible to read.

✅ Cardinal vowels dark mode error

Issue Description Images with transparent backgrounds are displayed weirdly in dark mode.

📢 Dark horse dark mode error

Issue Description The current dark mode is too high contrast like a bright white font on an almost black background. I nicer (easier to read) dark mode has a light grey font on a dark grey background.

🐛 Dark mode CSS filter problems

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T391800

A brightness filter for images overrides other CSS classes used to apply filters. In particular, it overrides skin-invert and skin-invert-image. For an example page see w:RiPP.

I noticed this days ago, but was hoping whoever made the change would have noticed and addressed it or written about it somewhere I could find. Of course they haven't and I haven't found any writing on it. For example, they haven't bothered updating advice regarding the situations where these CSS filters like skin-invert are useful: Recommendations_for_night_mode_compatibility_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Apply_filters_to_dark_images_with_transparent_background.

The simplest fix for this would be to use a shade of gray for the background (like #ccc) rather than using a filter to adjust down the statically coloured --background-color-base-fixed (#fff). If design tokens must be used, go for --background-color-tab-list-item-framed--active until something more semantically meaningful can be added, as the tokens --background-color-backdrop-dark and --background-color-backdrop-light are not right for the job. Alternatively, arbitrarily increase the specificity of the CSS rules involving skin-invert or add !important to those rules.

The CSS rule in question

@media screen { html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output > span.mw-default-size img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section .mw-heading ~ div > span.mw-default-size img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section > span.mw-default-size img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night dd > span.mw-default-size img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night p > span.mw-default-size img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output > figure[typeof="mw:File"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section .mw-heading ~ div > figure[typeof="mw:File"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section > figure[typeof="mw:File"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night dd > figure[typeof="mw:File"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night p > figure[typeof="mw:File"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output > figure[typeof="mw:File/Thumb"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section .mw-heading ~ div > figure[typeof="mw:File/Thumb"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section > figure[typeof="mw:File/Thumb"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night dd > figure[typeof="mw:File/Thumb"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night p > figure[typeof="mw:File/Thumb"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output > figure[typeof="mw:File/Frameless"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section .mw-heading ~ div > figure[typeof="mw:File/Frameless"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night section > figure[typeof="mw:File/Frameless"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night dd > figure[typeof="mw:File/Frameless"] img, html.skin-theme-clientpref-night p > figure[typeof="mw:File/Frameless"] img { background-color: var(--background-color-base-fixed,#fff); filter: brightness(0.8); }

Synpath (talk) 18:29, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Kia dark mode error

Issue Description Section: Logo History Logo in question: 2021 - present Example photo 6 Logo hard to see in dark mode

Microsoft dark mode error

Issue Description Well in Wikipedia, when you search for Microsoft Corporation the color was a little bit off

✅ WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to dark mode error

Issue Description The main content on this page seems to have had some of its styling overridden. Namely, it appears in a white box below two rows of what appear to be tabs. The content in the white box is mostly readable (although it of course does not obey the theme preference), but headings have an abysmal contrast ratio and I can barely discern the text within them without selecting them to create a blue highlight for contrast ratio (it would appear that their style is not overridden by the page-specific style and they are thus obeying my dark mode preference, at the expense of being able to read them).

That page's tabs are using the default settings provided by Template:Start tab, which uses Template:Tab to build the tabs. That is the template that needs dark mode attention. Jonesey95 (talk) 17:29, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

✅ Wade–Giles dark mode error

Issue Description

The main image in the page "Wade-Giles" (his portrait) seems to be tagged as color-invertible somehow --- it becomes a negative when viewed in dark mode. I'm not sure whether this is an automated process or what, but the file is a regular old .jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles#/media/File:Herbert_Giles.jpg)

This is because Infobox_romanization, uses Inbox_writing_system, which sets this by default, because it (somewhat rightly) assumes that all example images are script examples, not images of people related to the writing system. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Now fixed —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

✅ Flags of North America dark mode error

Issue Description none of the text in the tables in the sections "Flags of North American sovereign states" or "Flags of dependencies and other territories in North America" is visible

❓Main Page dark mode error

Issue Description make more dark the dark mode

❓Titus Kofi Beyuo dark mode error

Issue Description

✅ MOS:DAB dark mode error

Issue description: It seems like many of the block indents' text fully blend in with the background when using dark mode.

Fixed with https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages&diff=prev&oldid=1288253230 —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:15, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

❓ Main Page Dunkelmodus-Fehler

On the English Wiki-Main Page, the "Wikipedia languages" part, the languages are unreadable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

✅ Identity (mathematics) dark mode error

Issue Description The LaTeX mathematical equations are black with white highlighting in dark mode in the side info panel under the visual representation of the cos²θ + sin²θ = 1 identity.

✅ Médecins Sans Frontières dark mode error

Issue Description The text in the logo in the infobox is very difficult to read in dark mode.

❓ Watchlist dark mode error

Issue Description

Timeline of the telephone dark mode error

Issue Description When you hover over a citation link with JavaScript enabled on the new UI with Dark Mode enabled, you can't see the little down arrow at the bottom of the pop-up. Image: https://silvanzwick.com/847296.png

English language dark mode error

Issue Description The familycolor in Language Infoboxes doesn't show on Dark Mode for all colors.

This is normal. Infoboxes currently do not have a way to ensure that a 'infobox color' is accessible in dark mode, so all those kinds of colors get disabled. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 07:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

❓Dwayne Johnson dark mode error

Issue Description nothing is wrong, but the bell icon and notices icon become super dark when hovering over them

✅ 1983 Air Force Falcons football team dark mode error

Issue Description

Article - 1983 Air Force Falcons football team. The part that was hard to read is the "Schedule" section and the table in it. The white text on pastel yellow and pink boxes is completely illegible. It is in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th boxes.

@Aaronlarrabee2: Sort of fixed, by making it an exception with notheme. This at least makes it readable, until someone decides to invest more time into it. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:52, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

✅ Planetary hours dark mode error

Issue Description

Platform:

Safari, iPadOS v18.3.2

12.9" 6^Th-generation iPad Pro

Sections and text locations:

• History, paragraph 2
• Table of hours

     Astronomical symbols are hidden (black on black) on dark (black) background coloring but show up on light (white) background coloring. (The latter occurs in some cells in the table in the 'Table of hours' section of the problematic article. If Smart Invert is enabled on your device, then image colors are inverted and the situation reverses: previously-hidden symbols are now white and visible on the dark (black) background coloring and previously-visible symbols are now white and hidden on the light (white) background coloring (in those table cells as mentioned.)

— RandomDSdevel (talk) 06:52, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

✅ Svara dark mode error

Issue Description Unreadable information (black on black) inside the tables located in the section Seven svaras and solfège (sargam).

@81.97.166.241: fixed —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 07:51, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Hey man im josh dark mode error

Issue Description Some words aren't visible in the Userboxes.

Platform and Device

• Google Chrome (Platform)
• ChromeOS (Device)

🤖 "Tools" Side Panel dark mode error

Issue Description

The "Expand all" / "Collapse all" toggle has significantly worse contrast than all surrounding links:

Applies to any article, like this one, for example.

Issue Analysis

The cause seems to be that this is a button unlike surrounding links, and therefore the following CSS does not apply:

   a:where(:not([role='button'])) {
       color: var(--color-progressive,#36c);
       border-radius: 2px;
       text-decoration: none
   }

@IvanovKirilG: it sounds like that is a gadget, as it is not part of the default UI. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 07:53, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

@TheDJ: It's not a gadget. In the IP view, it's hidden under "tools". Matrix (talk) 18:58, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Its not present on other wikis, so its a gadget. Or a site script or something. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 21:59, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

@TheDJ: I just found the code for it in mediawiki core - let me check if there's a phab ticket (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/resources/src/mediawiki.page.ready/toggleAllCollapsibles.js) Matrix (talk) 12:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Yup, phab:T381316 Matrix (talk) 12:01, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

✅List of songs in Green Day: Rock Band dark mode error

Issue Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Green_Day:_Rock_Band cant see unlinked song names when in dark mode

Generic dark mode error

Issue Description:
When using find-and-replace, it is incredibly difficult to see the contrast between the selected and non-selected instances as they are both similar shades of green. To use find-and-replace, I have to switch to light mode. Please may you make it that in dark mode the colours are either more contrasted shades of green or just pick any two colours it works for. Thanks for your time.

✅User UKRail dark mode error

Issue Description Invisible text in userbox. Don't know if this is something you cover but thanks for your time anyway.

List of wars involving Pakistan dark mode error

Issue Description When ever I switch to dark mode, lists like the one on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Pakistan#List appear bright. I have my browser's default to dark. when I switch to light mode, the list becomes dark, the page stays dark, but all the flag icons get messed up beyond comprehension like a texture bug.

✅ Ford–Fulkerson algorithm dark mode error

Issue Description The algorithm box has a white background in dark mode, and while the text in the algorithm box is black, the math (using SVG mode, at least) remains white and becomes impossible to read.

Archaic Greek alphabets dark mode error

This occurs in the siderbar, containing the image with description Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. where it shows up with an inverted colour scheme when using dark mode. When clicking on the image, opening the big view, it reverts back to normal.

✅ LaTeX dark mode error

Issue Description §w:LaTeX#Example : Media is the same colour as the background—higher contrast required.

Fixed by inverting the image in dark mode. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:11, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

✅ IRC help disclaimer dark mode error

Issue Description In dark mode (the FAQ sections), the questions are in bright colors like the background, making them appear invisible and unreadable.

This at least made it readable. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:19, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

❓ Horace Campbell dark mode error

Issue Description the Citation error report box is very hard to read while in dark mode because the background acts like it's in light mode but the text acts like it's in dark mode

This might have been the scribunto error dialog, but the error is no longer there, so hard to know for sure. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

✅ Average human height by country dark mode error

Issue Description The grey text in the table in section "Measured and self-reported figures" is hard to read

Reported back to the wiki en:Talk:Average_human_height_by_country#Accessibility asking article authors for ideas —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:31, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Umais Bin Sajjad/Articles dark mode error

'Headings become invisible on pages with inline background-color in Dark mode: In Dark mode, page headings (e.g. “== Films ==”) are forced white, but my user-box container uses an inline background-color: #F0FFEA. This leaves white text on a light-green box, which is almost unreadable. The inline style isn’t automatically inverted.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable Dark mode in your account.
2. Visit User:Umais Bin Sajjad/Userboxes or /Articles.
3. Observe that headings inside the green box disappear.

Expected:

• Either the container background should switch to a darker tint, or
• Heading text should detect the inline background and switch to dark.

@Umais Bin Sajjad: These elements were not designed with dark mode in mind. By default, the dark mode attempts to apply some fixes, but these can also make it worse (making the headings invisible). I have thus opted out the element from dark mode completely. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:41, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

KingArti dark mode error

Userbox text is not visible when in dark mode if the background of userbox is light. See the top most userbox.

Ironically, this is because the user is using Template:Infobox Wikipedia user and forcing a white-text-on-black-background color palette. In light mode, that applies to the outer table, and then the infoboxes render with their normal appearance. But in dark mode, the forced styling causes the color palette for the userboxes to get flipped and have the white text color forced upon them. Normally, the userboxes support dark mode fine, but the user is over-styling their page in a way that breaks dark mode. I'd take it up with the user. FeRDNYC (talk) 16:30, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Using colours dark mode error

Issue Description I was reading the article on Pyridinium and there are three skeletal formulas as images on the page. However, they were drawn using black lines on a transparent background and you can't see it at all.

🤖 Soap opera dark mode error

Issue Description Dark mode doesn't work well with the wikEd advanced text editor within wikipedia. Some important text in the lower section changes to white but the background remains white, hiding it and making the area difficult to use.

@Malcontent: Yes, wikEd does not support dark mode. Unfortunately the author of wikEd is only very sporacically available, but you can try to leave a message on their talk page Caycle/wikEd. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:46, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Teahouse Suggestions dark mode error

Issue Description

The "Get Suggestions" button under the Suggestions page of the Teahouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Suggestions) leads to a page that is white and almost entirely unreadable in dark mode.

✅ Cirth dark mode error

Issue Description The SVG images used to portray runes are displayed in black color in dark mode and so are impossible to see when used in paragraphs, or hard to see in tables.

President pro tempore of the United States Senate dark mode error

Issue Description When reading US Senate President pro tempore infoboxes, the "President pro tempore" part of the infobox is the same color as the background. As a result, the words "Incumbent" and "Assumed office" or "In office" are visible, as well as the date(s) of beginning and end of office, but not the actual title of the position.

Oh, I see it now!! The issue isn't actually on the page referenced, it's on pages that link to that page from their infobox. And the link isn't visible initially (using any color theme).

For example, at w:Chuck Grassley, the infobox includes an initially-collapsed "Senate positions" section. When you expand that section, in light mode you get a long list of positions, led off by "President pro tempore of the United States Senate", "Incumbent", "Assumed office", "January 3, 2025"...

But in dark mode, for some reason the "President pro tempore of the United States Senate" link is completely invisible! Looks like it's because it's in a table heading cell styled color: #202122; background: #eee;". Somehow that reacts catastrophically with the dark mode CSS. It matches this selector:

html.skin-theme-clientpref-os body.ns-0:not(.page-Main_Page) .mw-parser-output table:not(.infobox):not(.navbox-inner):not(.navbox) th[style*="background"]:not([style*="transparent"]):not([style*="inherit"]) a:not(.mw-selflink)

(table:not(.infobox) matches because there's an inner table inside the table.infobox that doesn't have that class set on it. So the selector matches it.)

That sets color: var(--color-base-fixed, #202122). (In dark mode, --color-base-fixed is also #202122.)

And since the <th> has been forced to background: inherit !important; color: inherit !important;, it ends up with a background color of #202122 and a foreground color of #202122. Yikes. FeRDNYC (talk) 16:11, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

✅ My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean dark mode error

Issue Description

Under the section "Variations and parodies," where the variation and parody lyrics are located, said lyrics cannot be read in dark mode.

✅ Namacalathus dark mode error

The current image can't barely be seen, due to the transparency of the background, and the dark brown color of the figure itself.

Huh... interesting. Confirmed, but the issue only happens in explicit Dark mode. If the appearance selector is set to "Automatic", even if your default system theme is dark, the image will have a white background. Only when explicitly selecting Dark mode does the background disappear, and result in a brown-on-dark-gray drawing. FeRDNYC (talk) 16:16, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Reported on wiki at en:Template_talk:Taxobox#Dark_mode_issue —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 09:52, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

✅ Petroleum dark mode error

With the new chart for Crude oil production the text "See or edit source data." is showed with light background color i night mode, which makes the text almost invisible. Tholme (talk) 21:03, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

This is because of the combination of imageframe template, which forces a background color, but not text color, and the Chart template, which when used like this, renders text inside the image frame instead of in the caption. Solved by using the thumb frame option of the Chart template itself. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 10:06, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Speed limits in Australia dark mode error

Issue Description When trying to edit a page with Apple iCloud Private Relay active on Safari in dark mode, the text in the blocked reasons box remains white, as does the background, making it difficult to read unless you highlight it.

@MrCrazyMan02: please upload a screenshot to imgur.com or another site of your choosing and send the link here. Matrix (talk) 05:35, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

✅ 2018 World Series of Poker dark mode error

Issue Description When viewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_World_Series_of_Poker in dark mode, the black suits rendered by Template:Cards template (Clubs and Spades) are styled with "color: black", which makes them nearly invisible against the dark background. This affects readability and accessibility. Selecting the text makes it visible, but that’s not a practical solution.

✅Instruction set architecture dark mode error

Issue Description Summary Box text is illegible

Section: Summary Box/side box - AFAICT template in page is

{{Machine Code}}

The side box contains the headings "Machine code", "General concepts" and "Instructions" - which are very low-contrast and almost illegible.

Have checked in Safari (logged in) and Firefox (not logged in and private browsing) - same flaw present in both browsers.

✅ Language family dark mode error

Issue Description On the page Language family, there is a table at the bottom of the page, 'Background colors used on Wikipedia for various language families and groups'. In Dark Mode, all colours and some text in the table are not showing at all. The text not showing is readable on right-clicking to highlight, but the colour of the text otherwise has no contrast with background colours in Dark Mode, making it invisible.

Why is that even in an article ? Like who cares about the colorcodes that we ourselves use ? That seems editor information, not something that should go into the article ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 07:33, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

I removed it and added a note not to use in mainsapce Matrix (talk) 06:18, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Template:Version dark mode error

Dark mode

Light mode

Issue Description When I put the Version templates in a table, the colors don’t look the same as in light mode

@ IP User: ...What's the issue, though? You're correct, the colors aren't the same as in light mode. But you didn't explain why that's a problem.

In fact it's intentional, as the light-mode colors would be too light for the white text placed on top of them in dark mode. So, Template:Version has TemplateStyles that choose different colors based on the currently-selected appearance.

It was never claimed that the same colors would be used in both the light and dark themes -- in fact, the entire point of the appearance selector is to change the color palette used. ...Or, am I misunderstanding your issue? Generally when reporting dark-mode issues editing Wikipedia content (as opposed to simply viewing it as a reader), it's best to provide WikiText that demonstrates the problem, so that it can be reproduced. (In other words, what was the table definition you had issues with, and what about how it displays in dark mode wasn't what you expected?) FeRDNYC (talk) 15:35, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Ok, I thought it was an error 22f (talk) 02:21, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

❓ Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License dark mode error

Issue Description

I see no problem at all in that page, I suggest removing this one. Tactica (talk) 20:08, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

❓Quicksort dark mode error

Issue Description

Zero problems detected here, I suggest removing this one. Tactica (talk) 20:05, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

❓ Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar note dark mode error

The add language (Add languages) UI seems to not have the background color applied when i clicked on the button. Please consider fixing the background. Thanks.

✅ Book Pahlavi dark mode error

In dark mode, the black parts (both the script writing and the background) of the image (in the infobox) are incorrectly flipped to white. This isn't impossible to read, but it is weird.

@Spaceexplorer: most images used in that infobox are SVGs of the actual script, not photos, so by default it inverts those images. I specified the imageclass variable as an empty parameter, to avoid the default behavior of flipping —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:22, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

Sam Street (Sailor) dark mode error

Issue Description Article Sam Street (Sailor) on English Wikepedia In medal record in infobox cannot read any of the words

@Fin.Seaman: It works fine for me. Are you perhaps using a non-standard darkmode functionality ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:54, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Nope. just the default option under the appearance section to the right of the screen underneat the tools. Fin.Seaman (talk) 17:55, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Looks fine here too with Firefox on Linux. Maybe you should provide more details of your particular setup. Tactica (talk) 12:09, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Chrome on PC (not sure of specs) also didn't work on chrome on mac. worked for me on edge though, might just be on chrome Fin.Seaman (talk) 18:38, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Nickdelfieh/sandbox dark mode error

the mediawiki and wikimedia icons are still bright i mean around of the icon might be black only its still bright

Yes, this is intentional —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:54, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

✅ Overarc Dunkelmodus-Fehler

Issue Description The arc is always black, which is not readable. I don't know the CSS variable name for text color which is color-mode agnostic, otherwise I'd replace the literal black in the template definition with e.g. var(--text-color-variable-name).

@Joshinils: Fixed. For future reference, the default text color is var(--color-base), but you always need a fallback color, as not all skins use css variables yet. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 11:18, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Chur-Arosa railway dark mode error

Issue Description

My issue today pertains to the BSicon system and image rendering. In light theme, this code looks perfectly fine, with the road section rendered below the track. However, in dark mode, it appears reversed, with the road section over the tracks, obscuring them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Chur-Arosa_railway&oldid=1214758096

{{Routemap|navbar=Chur-Arosa railway|navbar pos = 2|title=Chur–Arosa|<includeonly>inline=1</includeonly>|footnote=Source: Swiss railway atlas<ref name=Eisenbahnatlas >{{cite book|title=Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz |trans-title=Swiss railway atlas |publisher= Schweers + Wall | year= 2012 |isbn= 978-3-89494-130-7|p=26}}</ref>|map= ~~km~~ ~~ ~~[[Height above mean sea level|elev]] CONTg~~ ~~ ~~[[Chur–Rorschach railway|from Rorschach]] uCONTg\STR\~~ ~~ ~~[[Landquart–Thusis railway|from Landquart]] uABZgl\mKRZ\uSTR+r~~ ~~ ~~ uBHF-L\KBHFe-M\uBHF-R~~0.000~~{{rws|Chur}}~~ ~~584 m uCONT3+g\ \RP4n!~RP4s!~lRP4O!~uSTR~~ ~~ ~~[[Landquart–Thusis railway|to Thusis]] \RP4c2!~uSTRc2\RP43+n!~uSTR3 ~~ ~~ ~~ \RP4s+1!~uBHF+1\RP4c4!~uSTRc4~~0.762~~[[Chur Altstadt (Rhaetian Railway station)|Chur Altstadt]]~~ ~~595 m \d\vRP4-!~uvSHI2gl-\~~ ~~ \d\vRP4-!~uvSTR-DST\~~ ~~Sand depot and workshop~~601 m \d\vRP4-!~uvSHI2g+l-\~~ ~~ RP4!~ueHST~~2.239~~Chur-Sassal~~(until 2000/01)~~620 m uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sassal I (25 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sassal II (87 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sassal III (18 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Meiersboden (19 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Nesslaries (19 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Äusserer Eichwald (45 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Dorfrüfe (63 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Spundätscha (283 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Gitzistein II (47 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Gitzistein III (58 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Saxernase (51 m) uDST~~5.826~~Untersax~~ ~~782 m uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Calfreiser Tobel (85 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Steinboden (188 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~[[Castielertobel Viaduct|Castieler Tobel]] (91 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~[[Castielertobel Viaduct|Bärenfalle]] (249 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Cuorra (124 m) uBHF~~8.727~~[[Lüen-Castiel (Rhaetian Railway station)|Lüen-Castiel]]~~ ~~938 m uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Lüener Rüfe (399 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Clasaurer Tobel (64 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Clasaurer (93 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Leidspinagrat (48 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sandgrind (380 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Grosstobel (64 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Löchbächli (66 m) uBHF~~12.722~~[[Sankt Peter-Molinis (Rhaetian Railway station)|St. Peter-Molinis]]~~ ~~1157 m uBHF~~14.353~~[[Peist (Rhaetian Railway station)|Peist]]~~ ~~1244 m uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Frauentobel (82 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Matten (114 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~[[Gründjitobel Viaduct|Gründjitobel]] (145 m) uBHF~~17.900~~[[Langwies (Rhaetian Railway station)|Langwies GR]]~~ ~~1317 m uhKRZWae~~ ~~ ~~[[Langwieser Viaduct]] (287 m) uBHF~~20.685~~[[Litzirüti (Rhaetian Railway station)|Litzirüti]]~~ ~~1452 m uDST~~22.923~~Haspelgrube~~ ~~1582 m uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Eck (21 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~[[Arosa (Rhaetian Railway station)|Arosa]] (299 m) uBHF~~25.681~~[[Arosa (Rhaetian Railway station)|Arosa]]~~ ~~1739 m uYRDa }}<noinclude> {{Railway-routemap|CH|Chur–Arosa railway line}} {{template reference list}} </noinclude>

I even took the time to redo the code because I thought I had made an error, but I was correct. For example, I replaced \RP4n!~RP4s!~lRP4O!~uSTR with \uSTR!~RP4n!~RP4s!~lRP4O. This code has the exact opposite issue; in light mode it is underneath and in dark mode it is fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Chur-Arosa_railway&oldid=1304744179

{{Routemap|navbar=Chur-Arosa railway|navbar pos = 2|title=Chur–Arosa|<includeonly>inline=1</includeonly>|footnote=Source: Swiss railway atlas<ref name=Eisenbahnatlas >{{cite book|title=Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz |trans-title=Swiss railway atlas |publisher= Schweers + Wall | year= 2012 |isbn= 978-3-89494-130-7|p=26}}</ref>|map= ~~km~~ ~~ ~~[[Height above mean sea level|elev]] CONTg~~ ~~ ~~[[Chur–Rorschach railway|from Rorschach]] uCONTg\STR\~~ ~~ ~~[[Landquart–Thusis railway|from Landquart]] uABZgl\mKRZ\uSTR+r~~ ~~ ~~ uBHF-L\KBHFe-M\uBHF-R~~0.000~~{{rws|Chur}}~~ ~~584 m uCONT3+g\ \uSTR!~RP4n!~RP4s!~lRP4O~~ ~~ ~~[[Landquart–Thusis railway|to Thusis]] \uSTRc2!~RP4c2\uSTR3!~RP43+n ~~ ~~ ~~ \uBHF+1!~RP4s+1\uSTRc4!~RP4c4~~0.762~~[[Chur Altstadt (Rhaetian Railway station)|Chur Altstadt]]~~ ~~595 m \d\uvSHI2l-!~vRP4-\~~ ~~ \d\vRP4-!~uvSTR-DST\~~ ~~Sand depot and workshop~~601 m \d\uv-SHI2r!~vRP4-\~~ ~~ ueHST!~RP4~~2.239~~Chur-Sassal~~(until 2000/01)~~620 m uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sassal I (25 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sassal II (87 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sassal III (18 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Meiersboden (19 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Nesslaries (19 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Äusserer Eichwald (45 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Dorfrüfe (63 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Spundätscha (283 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Gitzistein II (47 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Gitzistein III (58 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Saxernase (51 m) uDST~~5.826~~Untersax~~ ~~782 m uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Calfreiser Tobel (85 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Steinboden (188 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~[[Castielertobel Viaduct|Castieler Tobel]] (91 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~[[Castielertobel Viaduct|Bärenfalle]] (249 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Cuorra (124 m) uBHF~~8.727~~[[Lüen-Castiel (Rhaetian Railway station)|Lüen-Castiel]]~~ ~~938 m uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Lüener Rüfe (399 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Clasaurer Tobel (64 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Clasaurer (93 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Leidspinagrat (48 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Sandgrind (380 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Grosstobel (64 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Löchbächli (66 m) uBHF~~12.722~~[[Sankt Peter-Molinis (Rhaetian Railway station)|St. Peter-Molinis]]~~ ~~1157 m uBHF~~14.353~~[[Peist (Rhaetian Railway station)|Peist]]~~ ~~1244 m uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~Frauentobel (82 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Matten (114 m) uBRÜCKE2~~ ~~ ~~[[Gründjitobel Viaduct|Gründjitobel]] (145 m) uBHF~~17.900~~[[Langwies (Rhaetian Railway station)|Langwies GR]]~~ ~~1317 m uhKRZWae~~ ~~ ~~[[Langwieser Viaduct]] (287 m) uBHF~~20.685~~[[Litzirüti (Rhaetian Railway station)|Litzirüti]]~~ ~~1452 m uDST~~22.923~~Haspelgrube~~ ~~1582 m uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~Eck (21 m) uTUNNEL2~~ ~~ ~~[[Arosa (Rhaetian Railway station)|Arosa]] (299 m) uBHF~~25.681~~[[Arosa (Rhaetian Railway station)|Arosa]]~~ ~~1739 m uYRDa }}<noinclude> {{Railway-routemap|CH|Chur–Arosa railway line}} {{template reference list}} </noinclude>

P.S. I will also mention that the color of the tracks in dark mode is very hard to see. Not enough contrast.

--Hugtrain (talk) 22:43, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

✅Video game reviews dark mode error

Title text is black and not readable with dark mode

Main Page dark mode error

At the bottom of the page (computer view) there are buttons for linking to the MediaWiki website and the Wikimedia Foundation website, probably as credits. The problem is that these buttons are white, and the contrast is very distracting to the eye. The problem exists on every page on the wiki. Thanks!

This has been answered already in another thread here and it's intentional. Tactica (talk) 01:18, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Preferences dark mode error

Issue Description Dark mode does not work with Preferences>Gadgets>Syntax highlighter. The editing box turns white. Metallurgist (talk) 07:46, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

✅ Today's featured article dark mode error

Issue Description The boxes are light mode themed and not dark. Additionally, in dark mode, the link colors are light blue instead of dark blue, and so it's pretty hard to see them on a light background.

Haaayzey dark mode error

Issue Description On user pages, userboxes that are black with white text are not properly visible. dark mode turns the white (and also other colored) text of these userboxes black, making them unreadable.

@Haaayzey: I'll be honest, it's not really a good use of our time to fix userboxes. Matrix (talk) 16:47, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

✅CBeebies dark mode error

Issue Description too many images with white backgrounds that look terrible on dark mode, and mislead people into thinking that if they turn on dark mode, they'll be able to see yellow or pink logos clearer

Main logo fixed, don't think it's possible to change the others. Matrix (talk) 10:16, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

EmailUser dark mode error

Insufficient contrast for "You have a new Talk page message" notification

The notification displayed about having new talk page messages strikes me as having inappropriate contrast between the background color and the font color, as you can see in the screenshot attached. − Pintoch (talk) 12:22, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

✅Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 dark mode error

The image c:File:Emblem of India.svg does not render properly in dark mode in articles. For instance I was barely able to make out the emblem in the article w:en:Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025. JavaHurricane (talk) 15:37, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Image attached for reference.

JavaHurricane (talk) 15:41, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

✅List of prime ministers of India dark mode error

Issue Description The table is in white mode and the tools column is in black. this covers many molumns, mainly the head of state column

The only issues I see on that page happen in light mode in the infobox, with the show/hide buttons and the hidden subheadings being barely readable against the background. One would probably expect tables to switch background colours in dark mode, but other than that they remain readable here with the desktop view. Tactica (talk) 20:00, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

The subheadings are barely readable in dark mode. I have removed a fixed background in the table column Concurrent ministerial positions. Tholme (talk) 16:48, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Fixed. Tactica (talk) 13:28, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Hyperparameter optimization dark mode error

Issue Description

I made a wikipedia account merely to toggle darkmode OFF as suddenly all my wikipages went black. I want my systempreference on my PC in general to be darkmode, but I do NOT want wikipedia to be, it nigh is unreadable to me this way. Still, after making the account, and despite the toolbox displaying the chosen color (beta) as light it displays as darkmode and I need to first click auto and the reselect light to finally get to lightmode again, something which lasts for a few hours before my wikipedia pages again reload or open in darkmode. Please help me someone out there in the wikisphere! :)

✅Diffie–Hellman key exchange dark mode error

Issue Description In the "Cryptographic explanation" and "Secrecy chart" section, there is dark blue text to mark non-secret values of the protocol, which makes it hard to read with a dark background. Interestingly, the MathML text seems to already have dark mode handling so that's not an issue.

Easiest solution would be to edit the article and replace every problematic instance of {{blue|text}} with e.g. {{green|text}}. Tactica (talk) 19:42, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Done Matrix (talk) 14:26, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ Mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field dark mode error

Issue Description The Math this box is unreadable, because the background color stays the same, but the text becomes white.

Maxwell's equations (vector fields)
$\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot 𝐄=\frac{\rho }{{\epsilon }_0}$	Gauss's law
$\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot 𝐁=0$	Gauss's law for magnetism
$\mathrm{\nabla }\times 𝐄=-\frac{\partial 𝐁}{\partial t}$	Faraday's law of induction
$\mathrm{\nabla }\times 𝐁={\mu }_0𝐉+{\mu }_0{\epsilon }_0\frac{\partial 𝐄}{\partial t}$	Ampère-Maxwell law

President of the United States dark mode error

Issue Description Page not turning into dark mode when system is in dark mode

Looks fine here. Tactica (talk) 12:22, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Talavera, Nueva Ecija dark mode error

Issue Description

This one looks fine here too. Tactica (talk) 12:27, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ Supha Sangaworawong dark mode error

Issue Description

Within the Infobox person, within the Infobox Swimmer module, the Medal templates are difficult to read in dark mode. Namely:

• Template:MedalCountry – Country name not visible
• Template:MedalCompetition – Banner and text are not visible
• Template:MedalBronze – Title is not visible, Medal and Sport are visible

Done Template-protected edit request placed to fix this. Waddie96 (talk) 06:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ Wikimania 2025 banner dark mode error

The X (close button) in the top right of the banner for Wikimania 2025 that appears across Wikipedia is almost invisible in dark mode.

Copying report from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading/Reporting/wikimania.wikimedia.org#Registration_dark_mode_error, I didn't intend to send it to that page initially. – OdinintheNorth (talk) 15:21, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

The event is already in the past and since I don't see that close button (anymore) I guess this can be closed. Tactica (talk) 03:28, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Katakana table dark mode error

Issue Description
"unused" and "etymological spelling" are unreadable in dark mode. This seems to be a result of multiple issues which likely affect other pages:

1. w:Template:Katakana table by default sets the background color parameter of w:Template:Color box to transparent. This gets passed to w:Module:Color contrast which can't handle that value and ends up generating an empty color property in the style attribute: background-color:transparent; color:;
2. w:Template:Color box uses the .legend-color style in w:Template:Legend/styles.css which sets both background-color: transparent and color: black, which is inappropriate for dark mode. This appears to be a default that is intended to be overridden with inline styles, but this does not happen due to (1).
   • This could probably be fixed by removing the default color styles or replacing color: black with color: inherit (as recommended here), or replacing color: black with color: var(--color-base, #202122) to avoid inheriting a non-default color. Though I'm not sure if there is a reason to use pure black instead of the dark gray default text color.
3. The color value from w:Template:Legend/styles.css gets overridden by a workaround that defaults the color of elements matching .mw-parser-output [ style*='background' ] to #202122, which is problematic for style="background-color: transparent;". Note that the original value is not correct either, but this means fixing (2) would not be enough.
   • The same file defines a more restrictive selector (added later) which could be used instead of [ style*='background' ] to avoid applying the workaround to elements with style="background-color: transparent;", but might lead to false negatives.

EvenTwist41 (talk) 21:05, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I'll fix this later Matrix (talk) 11:14, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@EvenTwist41: done Matrix (talk) 18:49, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ List of songs in Green Day: Rock Band dark mode error

Downloadable songs compatible with Green Day: Rock Band has dark mode issues

Fixed. Tactica (talk) 04:54, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewing instructions dark mode error

Issue Description The whole AfC WikiProject page collection are impossible to read in dark mode as the text is white on a very pale light green abckground. This is probably just because of the background colour styling on the page.

Edit: I just changed the setting from ''Automatic'' to ''Dark'', and that's fixed it by making the background a dark colour instead of the light green one that makes it impossible to read.

Looks fine here either in light or dark mode. Tactica (talk) 21:37, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

For me it's only broken in 'Automatic' mode. ~2025-54120-8 (talk) 03:15, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

fixed Matrix (talk) 18:50, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ Sunuwar alphabet dark mode error

Issue Description

The white background for the letter and digit images doesn't work so well in dark mode. -GeniusWorkbench4622 20:36, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Fixed. Tactica (talk) 21:29, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ R̥ (Indic) dark mode error

Issue Description

Letter images on this page are not very visible in dark mode, to say that the contrast between the letters and the background isn't very good. -GeniusWorkbench4622 19:06, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Fixed —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 08:35, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ Turning Point USA dark mode error

Issue Description
The logo in the infobox has class=skin-invert applied which distorts the colors from dark blue/red to light blue/pink. This does make the logo visible but looks funny and is inaccurate. I tried changing it to class=notheme but this doesn’t seem to work. EvenTwist41 (talk) 03:09, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@EvenTwist41 my general argument would be that if a logo is designed such that it is only correct with a white background, the white background should probably be part of the original logo. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:00, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@TheDJ: So do you mean the infobox should use a file with a white background? (that would also slightly change light mode where it currently appears on light gray) EvenTwist41 (talk) 21:33, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Fixed, by uploading an image with a white background. Matrix (talk) 16:03, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

✅ FedEx Express dark mode error

Issue Description

In the "Major incidents and accidents" section, the table of planes and their crashes is showing up as white rather than the darker color that it should be for dark mode.

✅ Federalist Party dark mode error

For some weird reason the picture for the logo of the Federalist Party is inverted. Black is white and white is black.

Fixed, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone reverted the change. --Tactica (talk) 03:13, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Nintendo 3DS dark mode error

Issue Description The Nintendo 3DS logo show a lighter red than what it actually shows

Grading scheme dark mode error

The text in most of the class column for en:Template:Grading scheme is almost unreadable. Tholme (talk) 21:15, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

✅ Infobox country at games dark mode error

Issue Description en:Template:Infobox country at games Gold, Silver and Bronze has white text on gold, silver and bronze background. Hard to read. Tholme (talk) 20:02, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Tholme done. thanks for reporting. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 09:07, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Sidebar games events dark mode error

Issue Description Mix of dark mode and light mode.

@Tholme: This seems an intentional pick of colors. It might not be pretty in dark mode, but it is readable and non-problematic, the use of lighter colors is not forbidden in darkmode. I would advise discussing on the talk page of the template if you want to suggest a different color scheme. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 09:13, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Zhenghecaris dark mode error

Issue Description One of the userboxes isn’t working

✅ Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft dark mode error

Issue Description Article: Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft (Whole title) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:So_you_made_a_userspace_draft (Whole URL) Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL. Remember, though, that many valuable sources are not available online. (Bad text) (Everything but what is bolded is unseeable.) Sources (Title of section dad text is in) The dark mode is showing darkish gray on dark gray, which is hard to read.

The only thing I found wrong with that page in dark mode was the "What is notability?" banner, which I just fixed. --Tactica (talk) 02:15, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

✅ Major film studios dark mode error

Issue Description 4/5 of the film studio logos at the top of the page are invisible in dark mode, but visible in light mode.

Fixed by removing skin-invert-image. Tholme (talk) 18:10, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Braille cell dark mode error

Issue Description

A Unicode character that is being inserted is too hard to see without text selection. The background of it is thought through only for the light mode (and I’m thankful for this at least, really). (At first I noticed this problem in this section in this Esperanto article.)

✅ Gavin McKenna dark mode error

Issue Description

The cells at the top of the tables are nearly impossible to read. I can barely read the text coming from those cells. Specifically, this issue comes from the awards and honors section of the page while reading in dark mode.

Fixed. --Tactica (talk) 03:27, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Infobox album andInfobox song dark mode error

Issue Description The color that changes depending on the type= parameter does not show in dark mode

✅ Letter case dark mode error

Issue Description

In section “Stylistic or specialised usage”:

• The caption of the table “A comparison of various case styles (from most to least capitals used)” is too hard to notice without text selection.
• (A little less important) It seems that we should fully think through the appropriate additional style for the whole table.

Fixed by changing to default wikitable layout. Tholme (talk) 16:37, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Ty Simpson dark mode error

Issue Description

The colors are not correctly shown on the college team labels. I'm seeing a mundane grey background on the text instead of the team's signature red. This comes from the infobox about the player on the top of the page.

Next United Kingdom general election dark mode error

Issue Description The Liberal Democrats color comes out dark grey which it doesn't normally and it happens in the summary.

Sydney United 58 FC dark mode error

Issue Description Issues (Such as citations Needed for verifacation) are showing up as a white box with white text when switching from source to visual editing

ShrimpsAreTasty dark mode error

Issue Description Not sure if this has already been reported or how significant it is, but I've noticed that when viewing userboxes on profiles in dark mode, the text often becomes hard to read. It seems that the issue occurs because userboxes use black text by default, while dark mode inverts the text color to white (as it does for the rest of the page). Since the background colors of the userboxes don't change accordingly, the white text blends in and becomes almost invisible.

- ShrimpsAreTasty

Unfortunately this is a pretty fundamental problem with userboxes that is not easily solved. The problem is that ever single userbox can define their own colors and the font color and background color that are passed are applied to different areas of the userbox. I've already brought this up at the UBX page, but unfortunately it is not visited that well these days. This is likely to still take quite some time before it can be fixed everywhere. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 10:13, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

✅ Comcast dark mode error

Issue Description The Comcast logo shows up darker than normal

Removed skin-invert from logo. Should look ok now with white background. Tholme (talk) 16:28, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you ~2025-27907-60 (talk) 11:41, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Noblesville High School dark mode error

Background of .png images not transparent after changing alignment and enabling dark mode. Item of interest: "Noblesville Athletics" logo.

Donald Trump and religion dark mode error

Issue Description The page colour keeps changing back to default white.

@~2025-34488-50: Unable to reproduce. Are you perhaps using a browser extension or something to force darkmode onto websites ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:52, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Barbalalaika dark mode error

Issue Description

Text in userboxes changes colour when dark mode is chosen. This makes them practically unreadable in dark mode. This doesn't happen to all userboxes and also not in all situations. For example, in my userpage, the userboxes under "project" still have black text but the ones under "Languages" and in my infobox become light. Other examples are in the list of Wikiphilosophy userboxes, where the text of some userboxes is untouched by dark mode, while others change. Barbalalaika (talk) 16:00, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I see this has already been brought up (apparently several times). Sorry for taking everyone's time! :) Barbalalaika (talk) 16:03, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Rising Star (Israeli TV series) dark mode error

Issue Description in the table "Eurovision Song Contest results", the bit for season 7 that says: " COVID-19 pandemic" is not visible in dark mode.

Slomo666 (talk) 15:26, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Tomsk dark mode error

Issue Description

✅ Leap year dark mode error

the image in #Gregorian_Calendar showing the date of summer solstice over 500 years contains black text, which is impossible to read while using dark mode

Prefrontal cortex dark mode error

Issue Description the text is so big in my english page could you please return it to normal like before i can't read when the page is too big !!!!

Dot.py dark mode error

On my user page, I moved my userboxes to my infobox, but the text on the userboxes is now almost unreadable.

Bills–Chiefs rivalry dark mode error

Issue Description In the table for this page, the links aren't showing up in dark mode.

Euarthropoda dark mode error

Issue Description Low visibility

German Bundesrat Dunkelmodus-Fehler

Issue Description Template for series of articles are topics: Links aren't visible. I noticed it with the "Politics of Germany" series first.

Screenshot of the template in darkmode.

How the template looks like in light mode.

✅ Alla breve dark mode error

Issue Description

In section “Historical usage”, there is the too high chance that the entire SVG images are too hard to look into.

✅ Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom dark mode error

Issue Description Names of County or County Borough councils in the tables turn invisible

Fixed by removing background:default;. Qwerfjkl (talk) 21:51, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

✅ Isaacl dark mode error

Issue Description In the ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message, the links are very light colors and are noticeably difficult to see. (In case this message is archived/deleted, see the image here: https://files.catbox.moe/e55kuq.png)

@~2025-35207-32: these are substituted templates, which cannot be fixed retroactively. But someone has fixed it for future cases it seems. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 11:52, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

✅ Double-Gauss lens dark mode error

Issue Description SVG files in the "History of Double Gauss lens designs" are transparent, the page itself is grey in dark mode, so the SVG files are barely visible. Maybe a background override can be implemented to a different colour like grey, for these sections?

Fixed by adding skin-invert-image to the gallery at the bottom. Qwerfjkl (talk) 21:30, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Sunella dark mode error

Issue Description In The difference between revisions the taxobox does not show info

How is this dark mode related? Matrix (talk) 21:11, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

1836 United States presidential election dark mode error

In the section "1837 contingent election for vice president", the senators' names are blended into the background.

✅ Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom dark mode error

Issue Description In the section for Wales, the names of the councils become invisible when switching to dark mode.

Fixed by removing background: default; Qwerfjkl (talk) 14:01, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you ~2025-27907-60 (talk) 14:44, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

✅ TikTok dark mode error

Issue Description The logo shows different shades of the red and blue than what is actually there

✅ History of nuclear power dark mode error

In the Pie chart graphic in "Development and early opposition to nuclear power", the background of the graphic is white but the text is also made white.

Janky workaround applied Matrix (talk) 21:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Lazada dark mode error

Issue Description

There is an issue with the dark mode colors in the financing section (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazada#Financing) particularly the graph extension used.

The colors of the graph are oversaturated/distorted in dark mode.

Dark mode error

When a user has an unread message on their talk page, a small notice appears below the alerts icon, linking to the talk page, with the text "You have a new Talk page message". On dark mode, the link is borderline-unreadable due to poor contrast with the background color (the contrast ratio is 1.64). For that matter, although I personally have no trouble reading it in light mode, the color contrast there is still only 3.56, so the background color could probably use some adjusting there as well. Mr. Starfleet Command (talk) 02:08, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Resettlement Administration dark mode error

Issue Description Not dark enough

International Criminal Court dark mode error

Issue Description

On the table in [examinations] the colours are not very visible in the dark mode (the black especially, and the silver and white are not very distinguishable)

Slomo666 (talk) 15:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

✅ Floor plan dark mode error

Issue Description the image titled "AcotacionTecnico" (a png)(under the header "part of a series on technical drawings") is incredibly difficult to see. It renders on my display as black lines on a nigh-black background.

done —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 19:07, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Current events dark mode error

External links that contain another HTML element inside them (<i>, for instance) show an extraneous link arrow in the background of that element. It looks like the following CSS is responsible for this:

@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    .skin-theme-clientpref-os .ns-100 .mw-parser-output :not(.notheme):not(a) {
        background: inherit !important;
    }
}

Goodram (talk) 16:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Portals are VERY broken at the moment. This will take a while to fix Matrix (talk) 18:17, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Dominator (graph theory) dark mode error

Issue Description

There is an error in the table at the top of the article. It is intended to have multiple text colors to indicate different domination relations, but in dark mode, all of the text is white.

Cascade Farm and Outdoor dark mode error

Issue Description When creating an infobox, the text appears black

South Africa men's national kho kho team dark mode error

Issue Description Tables with a light-colored background in the cells are not readable when the text color is reversed to white in dark mode. I have to either select the cell, which may not always be possible, or switch to light mode, which causes eye strain. This issue is present in both the desktop and mobile versions. Either keep the text color black in such tables, irrespective of the mode, or use a color like blue that works fine on both modes.

Australia/Wikiproject dark mode error

Issue Description

--~2025-40159-31 (talk) 06:36, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

This is due to w:Template:Image label forcing a white background and needs an admin to fix. Tactica (talk) 11:57, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

GameCube dark mode error

Issue Description The symbol in the GameCube logo in the infobox doesn't display properly - the highlight of the cube is black in dark mode instead of its actual light color. --KPyall (talk) 22:49, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

It's called "dark mode" for a reason :) Tactica (talk) 17:55, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

I know, but still, it doesn't look right KPyall (talk) 02:43, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Wait till the FFD ends first, then we can apply the dark mode switch template Matrix (talk) 18:21, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Belton Knapp dark mode error

Issue Description

--~2025-41011-77 (talk) 23:50, 15 December 2025 (UTC)It sometimes switches off at random times and sometimes when i open a new page

MatrixBot is in the process of fixing errors like this Matrix (talk) 18:21, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

OAuthManageMyGrants dark mode error

Issue Description

--ZabiClassy18 (talk) 16:47, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@ZabiClassy18 Can you be more specific about how you are experiencing a problem on the OAuthManageMyGrants page ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Freedom in the World dark mode error

Issue Description

--~2025-27907-60 (talk) 10:57, 20 December 2025 (UTC) In the section for the countries ranked in 2025, the numbers don't change to white, meaning that it is harder to read the numbers in dark mode.

User means the index numbers in the first column I think. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:36, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Generative pre-trained transformer dark mode error

Images are not visible when I have dark mode enabled, I can only view them by clicking on their container. I am on Firefox version 147.0b9

--NanoSmug (talk) 05:25, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Girl so confusing/TWA/Earth/2 dark mode error

Issue Description When doing the The Wikipedia Adventure, the section headings come up as white text on a white background, making it difficult to see. Not a major issue but thought I'd report anyways! Awesome mode, by the way :) --Girl so confusing (talk) 08:44, 4 January 2026 (UTC)