Wikipedia Quick Hints

Display quick description of the terms in the Wikipedia article.

What is Wikipedia Quick Hints?

'Wikipedia Quick Hints' is a helpful Chrome extension designed to enhance your Wikipedia browsing experience. It saves you time by instantly showing brief definitions of words in a Wikipedia article as soon as you hover the cursor over them. It also zooms in images and allows nested hints within another hint popup. Moreover, it also keeps updating to adjust to the new Wikipedia article structures and to fix existing issues. It's a must-have tool for students, researchers, and the curious-minded constantly exploring the world of knowledge on Wikipedia.

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Users: 6,000+ ▲ 1,000

Rating: 4.62 (115)

Version: 2.20 (Last updated: 2017-07-08)

Creation date: 2017-07-08

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/

Size: 65.78K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 12565 ▲ 818

Other rankings

#3225 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 13

#41 in wikipedia keyword 28

#51 in bug fixes keyword 58 ▲ 2

#57 in term keyword 5 ▼ 1

#87 in definition keyword 38 ▼ 1

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Summary

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A simple extension that makes reading Wikipedia articles more convenient. When reading how often do you have to open an additional cross-article just to glimpse quickly at the meaning of a term you do not know? Now with Wikipedia Quick Hints getting definitions of unknown terms has become as simple as just hovering the cursor over a respective link. The definition pops up automatically. Images zooming is another useful feature of the extension. See screenshots for example.

Please rate if you find it useful. Comment if you have questions, find bugs or have ideas for improvements.

Changes history:

In version 2.2.0

Adjusted to new Wikipedia article structure. Bug fixes.

In version 2.1.7

Fixed image zooming issue.

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Useful
Helpful
Convenient

Cons

Buggy behavior
Small text size
Question marks under links

Most mentioned

Useful
Wikipedia pop-ups
Buggy behavior

Recent reviews

Recommended extension, but it breaks the wikipedia logo at the top left.

A Google user, 2015-05-03

Läuft nicht in Deutschland

A Google user, 2012-09-19

Recommended extension, but it breaks the wikipedia logo at the top left.

A Google user, 2015-05-03

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Safety

Risk impact

Wikipedia Quick Hints is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Wikipedia Quick Hints if you trust the publisher.