YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension)
View and Search for Wikipedia Articles
What is YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension)?
YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension) is a Chrome extension that provides back/forward support, search autocompletion and highlight, open in new tab functionality, and theme support. It can be used to view and search for Wikipedia articles as well as any wiki powered by MediaWiki with the mobileview plugin installed. The extension requires no permissions.
Stats
By:
David Knaack
Rating:
4.50
(2)
Creation date:
2017-12-02
Risk impact:
Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Size:
412.67K
Email:
da*****@knaack.me
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
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Summary
View and Search for Wikipedia Articles!
- Back/forward support
- Search autocompletion and highlight
- Open in new tab
- Support for ANY wiki powered by MediaWiki with the mobileview plugin installed
- Theme support
- No permissions required
User reviews
Only one review, I'm the 23nd user. Replaces a lookup extension with like behavior that is broken & not being supported.
YAWE provides Wikipedia search, an article viewing window, & open an article in a tab features. My 1st test worked as described.
A search for "Powershell" (recently made Open Source by Microsoft, no kidding) found that article & displayed the top of the article quickly.
The only issue was the need to make the lead picture & info box into drop-down segments. Then, the 1st paragraph of text would be visible.
You can still read that lead text now, if you scroll-down a short distance.
It's a great start, hope to see more features. Wikipedia users tend to be good long-term customers. Will there be a Pro-version?
Safety
Risk impact
YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension) is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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