Better Wikipedia

Fixes some annoying things about Wikipedia

Better Wikipedia - Chrome Extension

Better Wikipedia is a Chrome extension that fixes some annoying aspects of Wikipedia. It allows you to toggle the left panel, place commonly used language versions at the top, and hide HTML links.

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By: Sin Jeong-hun

Users: 12

Rating: 4.50

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Version: 1.6 (Last updated: 2021-12-20)

Creation date: 2020-06-20

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

https://*.wikipedia.org/wiki/*
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Size: 784.38K

Email: sj*****@gmail.com

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# 123,388 ▲ 4,548

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#37284 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 754 #128 in wikipedia keyword 22 ▲ 1 #159 in flag keyword 21 ▲ 8 #239 in wiki keyword 15 ▲ 3

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Extension summary

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I developed it for myself, but what the heck, if someone wants to use this, let him benefit from it.

Currently what it does is below, but I will add more in the future.

Toggle the (mostly useless) left panel (hides it by default).
Place commonly used language versions right at the top. I often need to read other language editions of an entry, but those links are at the middle of the left panel, so I had scroll down the page. Moreover, the order is sort of random and some entries are hidden under "More" button, so I cannot easily find the language I want.

This extension allows pinning fixed-order language buttons at the top, so that one can open language editions with a muscle memory Greyed one means that that language edition is not available. The language editions and their orders can be customised by clicking this extension's icon in the tool bar.

Hide HTML links.

Licence(s) for third-party resources

This extension contains the country flag icons from https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons. The icons are released under the MIT licence.

User reviews

Promessing, still some work is needed. Was just looking for a way to only get results for the english site or quickly switch between different localizations/Implementations, as for me atleast other lang versions always get pushed to the top of the search results. This addon seemed pretty much perfect and it is ..with one catch. It works best (and also one of its features also only) for the german wikipedia site. Reason: Just some sloppy oversight when getting/adding parts from/to the Pages DOM it seems.. (Page Header is different and some element names differ depending on wikipedia Implementation/localizations). Should be faily easy to fix. ..else I'd definitly recommend. Cheers!