#3.62 / 13 rate

Qikipedia

945 users

2019-04-04

BitSpice

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This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

Extension Information

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Description

Brings Wikipedia anywhere on the web. Highlight text to see its Wikipedia summary.

Qikipedia is an open source browser extension for Chrome. It allows you to highlight text from any website, and shows you a summary of the corresponding Wikipedia article, if one exists.

Features:
- Get instant Wikipedia summaries from any website
- Highlight up to 7 words
- Dark theme available
- Multiple languages supported

View the source code here: https://gitlab.com/bitspice/qikipedia

Note: if a word or phrase is highlighted and a Qikipedia card does not appear, there is no corresponding Wikipedia article for the highlighted text (in the selected language).

Qikipedia is not affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.

Reviews

Belay Mulat

very helpful edit.: doesn't seem to work now

Oleksander Dudar

It just doesn’t work at all.

Yumaa Verdin

Excellent extension, aside one really irritating behavior — can you filter out one-letter length selections? It is really bugs and annoys me, when I accidentally selects single letter, because of mouse shakes while click button or link, and I see popup from Wikipedia about «Z - latest letter in the alphabet blablabla»...