And I preferred previous theme anyway... And it can't be set without being logge...

Akronymus · on May 22, 2023

I use redirector with the following settings:

Redirect: https:\/\/(.)\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/([^?])(?!=\?useskin=vector)

to: https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector

Applies to: Main window (address bar)

capitainenemo · on May 23, 2023

Thank you for this! Just installed redirector. Actually a few of my tampermonkey scripts are to map twitter to nitter etc, and I have old reddit redirect addon which could be consolidated into this as well.

BTW, to make it work I had to change:

    (.) to ([^.]*) and ([^?]) to ([^?]*)

I think HN formatting ate some characters (I used indenting to try and preserve)

Am4TIfIsER0ppos · on May 22, 2023

Are you saying if we use the URL parameter "useskin" set to "vector" we can get the old layout back? I wonder if this applies on other sites using mediawiki.

[EDIT] Fuck me! It does work both on wikipedia and the Arch wiki. So long.

hashar · on May 23, 2023

The `useskin` parameter should work on any MediaWiki instance as long as the targeted skin is installed on the instance. You can grab the list of skins from:

Special:Version (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version#mw-version-ski... )

An API query: * direct: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&... * demo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=quer...

Which yields the code name of each skins installed (eg: vector-2022, vector, monobook ...).

bawolff · on May 23, 2023

And if you want the even older skin ?useskin=monobook