Qikipedia

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

What is Qikipedia?

Qikipedia is an innovative browser extension for Chrome that transforms web browsing into an informative experience. With a simple text highlight, users can get instant summaries from Wikipedia on any website. This extension supports up to 7 words highlight, multiple languages, and also offers a dark theme option. Please note, if a Qikipedia card does not appear after highlighting, it means there is no related Wikipedia article for the highlighted text.

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Extension stats

By: BitSpice

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 967 ▲ 26

Rating: 3.62 (13)

Version: 0.1.3 (Last updated: 2023-02-02)

Creation date: 2019-04-04

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
contextMenus
https://*/*
http://*/*

Size: 37.19K

Email: su*****@bitspice.net

Ranking

# 31734 ▲ 229

Other rankings

#4569 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 21 #58 in wikipedia keyword 21 ▼ 9 #142 in wiki keyword 14 ▼ 10 #252 in summarize website keyword 48 ▼ 15 #290 in source code keyword 26 ▼ 20

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Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

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

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

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.

Cons

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).

Most mentioned

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.

Recent reviews

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

Belay Mulat, 2024-01-05

It just doesn’t work at all.

Oleksander Dudar, 2019-12-27

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»...