WikiMapper

WikiMapper - Track and graph your adventures down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

What is WikiMapper?

'WikiMapper' is a passive, lightweight Chrome extension specifically designed for Wikipedia enthusiasts. It silently records your Wikipedia and Wiktionary browsing sessions, creating a historical data tree out of it. This allows you to revisit your reading paths, tracing back to how you ended up at certain topics. It is a free and open-source software, with strong user privacy and does not serve ads. 'WikiMapper' unloads itself from memory when idle, ensuring efficient performance. It is updated regularly to meet Chrome's latest guidelines.

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By: Patrick McCarthy

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.75 (24)

Version: 2.0.6 (Last updated: 2021-07-20)

Creation date: 2016-09-24

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webNavigation

Size: 2.34M

Email: pt*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 24548 ▼ 97

Other rankings

#194 in Just for Fun ▼ 1 #107 in wiki keyword 14 ▼ 13 #123 in wikipedia keyword 21 ▼ 4

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Extension summary

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WikiMapper creates a historical tree of your Wikipedia browsing so that you can see just exactly how you spontaneously wasted 45 minutes and ended up reading about the history of Agriculture in Uzbekistan.

Once installed, you do not have to do anything special to use WikiMapper. It runs passively in the background and only on the wikipedia.org/wiktionary.org domains. It stores your Wikipedia browsing sessions locally so you can view them later at any time by clicking in the WikiMapper icon in your browser toolbar.

WikiMapper is free and open source software and does not collect any personal information, serve any ads, or transmit any data of any kind to anyone.

July 19, 2021 - Update manifest file to adhere to new Chrome Store guidelines

September 24, 2016 - Reverted changes from 2.0.3 that seemed to be causing problems with existing session detection.

June 21, 2016 - WikiMapper now unloads itself from memory when idle, making an already lightweight extension even lighter!

April 7, 2016 -- WikiMapper now supports browsing Wikipedia via the Wikiwand beautification extension!

March 2, 2016 -- NEW VERSION 2.0!

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

Simple and fun to use
Great tool for mapping Wikipedia pages
Possible extension to other Wikia sites

Cons

Issues with new routes or maps for already mapped pages
Does not work with Wikiwand domain
Treats edits as extra self-links

Most mentioned

Mapping functionality
Request for additional features or improvements
Possibility to extend to other domains

Recent reviews

Exactly what I needed!

Bartolomej Kozorog (Bart), 2021-01-30

I like this, but as already said, it would be cool if it checked to see if the page you are pulling up is already on the wikimap and go from there instead of creating a new route or starting a new map. Export to Xmind would be good too.