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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Feb 16, 2009 5:50AM

Not sure when it happened, but a colleague just made me aware of the
fact that wikipedia seems to have dropped the underline styling on all
its links. Now, I'd argue that particularly on wikipedia, where
potentially every single word in the body copy can be a link, this is
extremely bad...so we have black text, dark blue links, and a light blue
background...squint a bit, or work on a monitor with slightly shot
contrast, and you can't see what's a link and what isn't...

Bad, bad decision there...

P