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Vector Layout For Wikipedia

This script appends ?useskin=vector to any Wikipedia Wiki page you visit. This returns the site to its old default desktop layout before the 2023 redesign.

Ekde 2023/01/22. Vidu La ĝisdata versio.

Fabian Wenzel 2025/07/28
Good I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the developer for creating this script. Finally, Wikipedia looks the way I am used to seeing it. However, you could have mentioned in the description...
zlew 2023/01/19
Last: zlew 2023/01/31
Is there any way to clean the URL after the redirect? When copy pasting from the location bar in Firefox it copies the ?useskin=vector too.
Buggled McGinty 2023/01/21
Last: Ata SancaktarAuthor 2023/01/22
OK This one is a lot slower than https://greatest.deepsurf.us/scripts/458494-old-wikipedia-layout I see an empty screen before a page will start loading. This happens when I click any links on the page. Mea...
trewqaGG 2023/01/20
Last: Ata SancaktarAuthor 2023/01/20
OK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alexis_Jazz#SkinEnforcer It does not work for urls with "#"s in them. So if you go here, it changes it to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alexis_Jaz...
trewqaGG 2023/01/19
Last: jonas1015119 2023/01/20
OK Can you make this script work for all Wikiproject websites? And instead of using a simple list, try adding something that detects if the site is a wikiproject website or not. Probably some marker i...
tns662 2023/01/19
Good I like this approach. I think it can be simplified somewhat by using more of the Location object's capabilities, along with URLSearchParams: if( ! document.location.search.includes("useskin=vect...
trewqaGG 2023/01/19
Last: Ata SancaktarAuthor 2023/01/19
OK Also, the script is slow and doesn't work for urls that already have "&"s in them, so for example pages with "&redirect=no" don't work with the script
adecrepitcabbage 2023/01/18
Last: Ata SancaktarAuthor 2023/01/19
Good I cannot thank you enough. I know that it's highly likely wikipedia will deprecate vector, making it impossible for certain users to use their site while touting increased accessibility, but until ...

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