Wikipedia Article Recommender

Wikipedia Article Recommender

Suggests a related article for most of the English-language Wikipedia articles you visit.

Wikipedia Article Recommender
What is Wikipedia Article Recommender?
Wikipedia Article Recommender is a Chrome extension that suggests related articles for most of the English-language Wikipedia pages you visit. Additionally, it offers randomly chosen articles based on your historical suggestion-following propensity.
Merlin
Stats
By: Unknown
Users: 9
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.0.1 (Last updated: 2017-04-02)
Creation date: 2017-04-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://localhost/*
  • https://ryanbisson.com/*
Size: 93.86K
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Summary

Wikipedia Article Recommender will suggest a related article for most of the Wikipedia* articles you visit. It will also suggest randomly chosen articles with a personalized level of probability that is based on your historical suggestion-following propensity.

Article suggestions will be display next to the title of the current article.

Privacy Policy: If a first-run opt-in is accepted, this add-on will send the current chance of a random article suggestion to the developer's server after every suggestion-applicable Wikipedia article is loaded. The data that is sent will include only a randomly generated unique identifier and the aforementioned probability value. The transmitted data will not contain personally identifiable information, and it will not be used for commercial purposes.

  • Currently, only the English-language Wikipedia is supported.
User reviews
Very cool extension. I went down a nice rabbit hole thanks to this yesterday. I found this through wanting to make a similar extension myself. Do you perhaps have any plans to make this project open source?
by Earl Bellinger Earl Bellinger, 2021-03-28
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Safety
Risk impact

Wikipedia Article Recommender is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Wikipedia Article Recommender has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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