Wikipedia Lookup - Context Menu

Search Wikipedia from the context menu.

What is Wikipedia Lookup - Context Menu?

Wikipedia Lookup - Context Menu is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by integrating a quick search feature directly in your context menu. Simply select any word or phrases from any webpage, right-click, and choose 'Search Wikipedia for..' option to get immediate results on Wikipedia. The tool auto-detects your webpage's language for optimum user convenience. Available on GitHub.

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Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-03-03

By: Damien Brunet

Users: 4,575+

Rating: 3.97 (35)

Version: 1.4.6 (Last updated: 2021-06-08)

Creation date: 2020-07-02

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

notifications
contextMenus
storage

Size: 18.35K

Email: cw*****@djrekca.com

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Select the word(s) you want to look up on Wikipedia, right-click and click the "Search Wikipedia for ..." item in the context menu.

By default, Wikipedia Lookup auto-detects the language of the page and opens the corresponding version of Wikipedia. You can turn this feature off in the options.

Open-source: https://github.com/djrekca/Wikipedia-Lookup---Context-Menu

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Easy and simple to use
Saves time searching
Ideal for quick reference

Cons

Doesn't support all languages (e.g. Hebrew) without adjustment
Stops working after computer restart
Recent changes affected user experience negatively

Most mentioned

Does not come built in with Chrome
Gathers user's tabs and data
Requires to open new tab for every lookup

Recent reviews

Great and saving time ! The default search option doesn't support Hebrew, unless you change it to the 2nd option "always open https://he.wikipedia.org/"

רתם חדד, 2022-04-28

So far so good.

Morgan P, 2020-11-30

Worked when I first added it to Chrome. Restarted computer. Didn't work. (It will function as normal until I restart my computer. Then it no longer shows up in the context menu though still enabled in Extensions.)