YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension)

View and Search for Wikipedia Articles

YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension) - View and Search Wikipedia Articles

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.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 18
-1
Rating: 4.50
(2)
Version: 4.2.7 (Last updated: 2020-10-11)
Creation date: 2017-12-02
Size: 412.67K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

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?
by John S Wolter, 2016-09-08
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Extension safety

Risk impact

YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension) does not require any sensitive permissions.

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