Full Width Wikipedia

Full Width Wikipedia

Remove the new Wikipedia style to use the previous/historical full sized version.

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What is Full Width Wikipedia?
Full Width Wikipedia is a Chrome extension that removes the new design attributes of Wikipedia, allowing users to restore the previous and historical appearance of the site. It aims to counter the counterproductive and harmful changes introduced in August 2020 by some branches of Wikimedia.
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Stats
Users: 21 ▼ -1
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2020-08-13)
Creation date: 2020-08-13
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 6.36K
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Full Width Wikipedia
Full Width Wikipedia (v1.1)
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Summary

Since August 2020 a new design have been adopted by some branches of Wikimedia, and therefore Wikipedia. This new design aim to reduce content line-lenght, but do it mostly in a way I, and according to the Wikipedia discussion page a lot of peoples, consider counter productive and harmful.

This extension provide a simple way to restore the previous and historical apparence by removing the new attributes (HTML classes) in the page.

Safety
Risk impact

Full Width Wikipedia is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Full Width Wikipedia has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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