What is Qikipedia?
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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.
User reviews
- Very helpful and user-friendly.
- Allows searching highlighted words without opening a new tab or window.
- Users appreciate the functionality of providing quick Wikipedia definitions and explanations.
- Highly rated as one of the best Chrome extensions used.
- Sometimes doesn't work for certain words.
- Popup can show unwanted disambiguation pages.
- No option to filter out single letter selections.
- Lacks a resize option for the popup bubble.
- Inadequate language support for Chinese (only Traditional is available).
- It just doesn’t work at all.
- Can you filter out one-letter length selections?
- Excellent extension with some irritating behaviors.
- Been searching for this kind of extension for a long time.
- Just Fvking AWESOME dude.
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Qikipedia requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
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Qikipedia has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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