# Old Wiki

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/old-wiki](https://chrome-stats.com/d/old-wiki)

## Overview

- **ID:** `old-wiki`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** adlerzei
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 205
- **Weekly downloads:** 16
- **Rating:** 4.75 / 5 (12 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-14
- **First published:** 2025-01-13
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/old-wiki/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/adlerzei/old-wiki/issues](https://github.com/adlerzei/old-wiki/issues)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #8,118 — Overall
- #11 — wiki
- #61 — hold
- #102 — interface
- #137 — wikipedia
- #143 — layout

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `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/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.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`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/old-wiki)