Wiki Search

Display information from wikipedia relating to highlighted text
What is Wiki Search?
Wiki Search is an open-source, free productivity tool for Google Chrome. Select a word or phrase on a web page and click the extension icon for a short summary of the relevant Wikipedia page. Click 'read more' for the full page.

Extension stats

By: noahjevon
Users: 15 ▲ 1
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2021-05-26)
Creation date: 2021-05-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 475.14K

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Extension summary

Wiki Search is an open-source, free productivity tool for Google Chrome.

Select a word or phrase on a web page and click the extension icon for a short 500 character summary of the relevant Wikipedia page. If you want to read more about a word or phrase, feel free to click the 'read more' button at the bottom of the extension popup. This will open a new tab with the full Wikipedia page.

Wikipedia page extracts are retrieved from the MediaWiki API.

User reviews

Wonderful little extension!
by Meo Shcam, 2021-05-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Wiki Search requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Wiki Search has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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