Old Wikipedia Layout

Redirects Wikipedia to use the good (pre-2023) skin.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

(I already have a user script manager, let me install it!)

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You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         Old Wikipedia Layout
// @namespace    http://greasyfork.org/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Redirects Wikipedia to use the good (pre-2023) skin.
// @author       Sheer Anger
// @match        *://*.wikipedia.org/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.wikipedia.org
// @grant        none
// @license      MIT
// ==/UserScript==

const skinchoice = 'vector';

function test(url){
    return !!url.match(/(?!.*useskin)^(|http(s?):\/\/)(|www\.|\w{2,6}\.)(|m\.)wikipedia.org(\/.*|$)/gim);
}

function getNewPage(url){
    var que = '?';
    if(url.includes("?")){que = '&'};
    return url.concat(que,"useskin=",skinchoice);
}

function fixWikiLinks(){
    var links = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.links, 0);
    links.filter(function(link){
        if(test(link.href)){
            var greatNewLink = getNewPage(link.href);
            if(link.hasAttribute('data-outbound-url')) link.setAttribute('data-outbound-url', greatNewLink);
            link.setAttribute('href', greatNewLink);
        }
    });
}

if(test(window.location.href)){window.location.assign(getNewPage(window.location.href));}

window.onload = fixWikiLinks;
setInterval(fixWikiLinks, 50);