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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By: BitSpice

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Users: 989 ▼ -11

Rating: 3.92 (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

URLs: Website

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 29722 ▼ 4815

Other rankings

#4094 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 16 #53 in wikipedia keyword 27 ▼ 3 #151 in wiki keyword 29 ▼ 7

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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

User reviews summary

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Helpful and useful
Does not require opening a new tab or window
Extension can highlight and explain selected words

Cons

Does not always work
One-letter selections trigger unwanted popups
Lacks search result diversity—limited to Wikipedia
Cannot differentiate between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
Card sometimes displays the disambiguation page and doesn't allow selection of a specific meaning

Most mentioned

Popup feature
Search capabilities
Functioning issues
Language support limitations

Recent reviews

very helpful

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»...

Yumaa Verdin, 2019-11-01

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Safety

Risk impact

Qikipedia is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Qikipedia if you trust the publisher.