Wikipedia Add A Fact

A chrome extension for adding facts to Wikipedia
What is Wikipedia Add A Fact?
"Wikipedia Add A Fact" is an experimental Chrome extension developed by the Future Audiences team at the Wikimedia Foundation, allowing users to easily contribute facts to Wikipedia. With the help of AI, users can select text from the web, find relevant Wikipedia articles, and add their findings to article talk pages. This streamlined process encourages collaboration while browsing the web, making it easier to enhance Wikipedia's content. Feedback is welcomed to improve the tool's performance.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.80 (5)
Version: 0.3.0 (Last updated: 2024-08-09)
Creation date: 2024-05-09
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • scripting
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • sidePanel
  • contextMenus
Host permissions:
  • http://localhost:8000/find_citation
  • https://citation-needed-api.toolforge.org/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 3.16M

Other platforms

Wikipedia Add A Fact (v0.3.1)
4.00 (1) 192
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Found a fact online that belongs on Wikipedia? The Future Audiences team at the Wikimedia Foundation built an experimental AI tool to help you more quickly add information to English Wikipedia without going to the website. You can now send information to be debated or added to articles to article talk pages without leaving your current open tab.

How it works:

• While browsing the web, select a short passage of text to add to Wikipedia. • Using Llama3-70b, the Add A Fact extension quickly searches for and analyzes Wikipedia articles that may be most relevant for the fact you’ve found to land in. • You will get back information about whether the fact you’ve found is in, partially mentioned or not at all in the relevant articles. • If none of the articles are to your liking, you can search for your preferred one. • Then add the fact with your comments to the article talk page to edit into the article later yourself, or to be debated or added by others. • Note: to use the posting functionality, you will need to be logged into a Wikimedia account that has autoconfirmed user rights (registered for 4+ days and with at least 10 edits) on English Wikipedia.

We need your help!

This is an experimental feature that uses generative AI, which we know can sometimes make mistakes.

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User reviews


3 text checks: OK. Works well with Chrome Windows 11. Need more time to be fully tested: interresting and usefull experimental extension.
by Patrick Lanquetin, 2024-05-14

Excellent plug-in to make it easier to use WIkipedia as a source... I can see the usage of Wikidata and citations and doing something like tools Scholia to make it possible to find * latest research articles on the subject wd:P921 * latest documents from parlament on the subject wd:P921 * have the same functionality as Wikidata:Entity_Explosion and use Wikidata to find more related sources
by Magnus Sälgö, 2024-05-13
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Wikipedia Add A Fact requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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