Wikipedia Article Recommender

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

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.

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Extension stats

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Users: 7 ▼ -2

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

Ranking

# 134815 ▼ 6875

Other rankings

#8915 in Tools ▼ 328 #10 in article keyword 8 ▲ 3 #40 in wikipedia keyword 21 ▲ 6 #55 in suggestion keyword 20 ▲ 1 #128 in wiki keyword 14 ▲ 6

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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?