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Fashion trends tend to work like this:

1. Someone does new thing, it looks stupid,

2. Others realise that even though it may look stupid, it looks new, so they copy it,

3. It's copied to the extent that if you don't do it, you look dated,

4. The stragglers do the thing too, and now it's not cool any more.

We're at stage 3 now with fade-in scrolling. When Wikipedia does it we'll be at stage 4 and then it will be cool to do whatever Wikipedia were doing 10 years ago.