Wiki Researcher

Don't Waste Time Opening Multiple Wiki Windows And Lose Track Of What You Are Reading. Do More With Search,Books And NYT Articles

Wiki Researcher - Enhance Your Wikipedia Research Experience

Wiki Researcher is a Chrome extension designed to enrich your research experience. Its unique feature allows you to view full Wikipedia articles just by hovering over highlighted wiki links in the page you're currently reading. It eliminates the need for multiple tabs, keeping your research more organised. Additionally, it provides Google search, book search, and New York Times articles for the highlighted keyword. It supports all languages available in Wikipedia, thereby making research more productive and effective.
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Extension stats

Users: 486
Rating: 4.25
(4)
Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2018-01-05)
Creation date: 2018-01-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
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Manifest version: 2
Size: 353.28K

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Extension summary

Wiki Researcher lets users view full Wikipedia article by placing the mouse on wiki links (internal links to other articles on Wikipedia) on Wikipedia pages. The user does not have to navigate from current reading page to read linked articles within an page.

*** Do not waste time opening multiple wiki windows and lose track of what you are reading.

*** Do more with Google Search, Book search and articles from New York Times.

This add on is a tool tip widget which lets users view full Wikipedia articles without navigating from the current wiki page.

*** Supports ALL languages in which Wikipedia pages are available

  • When Wiki Researcher add-on is enabled all internal wiki links on a wiki page are highlighted with a light red background color.

  • Placing the mouse on the highlighted wiki link for more than 3 seconds will open the tool tip with corresponding wiki article.

  • The reason for delay of 3 seconds is to avoid unintentional opening of tool tip while navigating or browsing on the page.

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User reviews

meh... it would be great if i could resize and move around, with no other sacrifices ofcourse..
by Hosty, 2020-02-28

nice i can see the whole article and also do google search!!
by Sriram Suri, 2016-12-27

Good One to get instant information about the link in wiki
by Sridhar V, 2016-12-23
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Wiki Researcher requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Wiki Researcher has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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