Changes the Wikipedia user interface to the beautiful old vector layout. Is also applied to the other international Wikimedia pages.

Latest Version

Version
1.3.0
Update
February 6, 2023
Size
18.56KiB
Developer
Category
Users
3,000+
Rating
4.67742 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
Storage
DeclarativeNetRequest
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Old Wiki Extension

This extension simply changes Wikipedia interface to the beautiful old vector layout by adding \"?useskin=vector\" to the end of each HTTP request. It is also applied to the other international Wikimedia pages.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "description": "Changes the Wikipedia user interface to the beautiful old vector layout. Is also applied to the other international Wikimedia pages.", "author": "Christian Zei", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Old Wiki", "short_name": "OldWiki", "homepage_url": "https://github.com/adlerzei/old-wiki#readme", "version": "1.3.0", "icons": { "48": "icons/logo_48.png", "128": "icons/logo_128.png" }, "declarative_net_request" : { "rule_resources" : [{ "id": "apply_vector_skin", "enabled": true, "path": "rules/apply.json" }, { "id": "remove_vector_skin", "enabled": false, "path": "rules/remove.json" }] }, "permissions": [ "storage", "declarativeNetRequest" ], "host_permissions": [ "*://*.wikipedia.org/*", "*://*.wiktionary.org/*", "*://*.wikiquote.org/*", "*://*.wikibooks.org/*", "*://*.wikisource.org/*", "*://species.wikimedia.org/*", "*://*.wikinews.org/*", "*://*.wikiversity.org/*", "*://*.wikivoyage.org/*", "*://commons.wikimedia.org/*", "*://*.wikidata.org/*", "*://*.mediawiki.org/*", "*://meta.wikimedia.org/*", "*://incubator.wikimedia.org/*", "*://wikitech.wikimedia.org/*" ], "background": { "service_worker": "worker.js" }, "action": { "default_icon": "icons/logo_32.png", "default_title": "Old Wiki", "default_popup": "popup/popup.html" }}
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User reviews

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Mirddes (ID: 000000536f2fe3fb) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/06/2023 this is of absolute importance when reading wikipedia. the new changes are dumb. as another reviewer has said, thanks for uncucking wikipedia.

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Jesse H (ID: 00000089049ba59a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/20/2023 Does its job. What else can I say?

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billyhatcher643 (ID: 000000599dc2ca6d) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/04/2023 thank god someone made this i noticed their new ugly layout and was really mad they did such a stupid design change desktop users arent the same as phone users stop forcing us to use a ugly design made for mobile it doesnt work

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NoName NoName (ID: 000000de24f14567) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/29/2023 Finally can change language of topics

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Brian Ferguson (ID: 00000057f728f756) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/12/2023 Does what it says on the tin. Huge improvement over the new garbage layout.