Wikipedia Citation Needed

A chrome extension for finding citations in Wikipedia by using ChatGPT

What is Wikipedia Citation Needed?

Wikipedia Citation Needed is a Chrome extension that uses ChatGPT AI to verify the reliability of web content by checking relevant articles and quotes from Wikipedia. It provides information about whether the claim is supported, article quality signals, and welcomes user feedback for improvement.

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By: Wikimedia Foundation

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.75 (4)

Version: 0.1.14 (Last updated: 2024-05-30)

Creation date: 2024-05-09

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: High 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: 1.85M

Email: wi*****@wikimedia.org

URLs: Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 27050 ▲ 179

Other rankings

#410 in Education ▲ 2 #36 in wikipedia keyword 22 ▼ 5 #92 in wiki keyword 23 ▲ 5 #154 in future keyword 7 ▲ 1 #224 in feedback keyword 30 ▲ 2

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Summary

Analyze keywords

Wondering about the reliability of what you read online? The Future Audiences team at the Wikimedia Foundation built an experimental new AI tool to check what Wikipedia has to say about what you’re reading, no matter where you are on the web, and we’d love your feedback.

How it works:

Check out this quick video that takes you through how to set up and use the extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_EPfTbjBM

• While browsing the web, select a short passage of text as a statement to verify • With the help of the ChatGPT API, the Citation Needed extension searches Wikipedia for relevant articles and quotes from them • You will get back: information about whether the claim is supported or not by Wikipedia, and article quality signals like date of last edit and number of references – all to help you get more context on the information you’re receiving (even from Wikipedia!)

We need your help! • This is an experimental feature that uses generative AI, which we know can sometimes make mistakes. • To help us understand and improve the quality of results, please report any issues you’re seeing via the feedback link in the extension. We also welcome general feedback and ideas for other ways Wikipedia could be useful in your day-to-day web browsing.

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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.

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

Magnus Sälgö, 2024-05-13

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 an issue * latest documents from parlament on the subject wd:P921

Magnus Sälgö, 2024-05-13

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Safety

Risk impact

Wikipedia Citation Needed may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.