Wikipedia; Almost every Internet user has heard that name before and chance is they have been – intentionally or not – on the website of the popular online encyclopedia at least once. Wikipedia is a good starting point to find information about a topic on the Internet. Most users access the site through web searches [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, The Web

Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that can be a good starting point for researching a specific topic. What Wikipedia sorely needs is a better search engine. Microsoft Powerset is a search engine technology that is powering Microsoft’s own search engine Bing. The Powerset website however is currently being used to demonstrate the Powerset technology [...]

Categories: Microsoft, The Web

If you want to look up the definition of a word in a web browser you usually have to open a second browser window or tab and open a web dictionary to do so. The Firefox add-on WikiLook optimizes the process by displaying word definitions that are listed in the Wiktionary dictionary directly on the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that is used by most users to get a quick overview on a certain topic. Wikipedia and its sister websites like Wikimedia or Wikiquotes can not only be accessed from desktop computers and web browsers but also from smartphones and other electronic devices. All have in common that an [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

Wikimedia recently conducted a study into how to make their projects, like Wikipedia, more usable and user friendly. The study highlighted a number of interesting points, like that many users had never been to Wikipedia’s homepage, instead finding articles through search engines. These points have helped steer development. One of the first things to come [...]

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You need to search on multiple search engines if you truly want to research a search term, as opposed to simply finding a solution to it. Some users might think that searching in Google is enough to find all the relevant information about a search term and while that may be true more often than [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

Many users think that nothing gets ever deleted on Wikipedia. There might be some heavy editing going on from time to time but deleting pages? If you visit the website Deletionpedia you will soon realize that Wikipedia pages get regularly deleted. Pages in this case meaning the page including all of its contents. Deletionpedia provides [...]

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Last year, the German Wikipedia was printed. Now, many Wikipedias worldwide – including the English Wikipedia – has given people the opportunity to compile a book of Wikipedia articles which can then be professionally printed or exported as a PDF or OpenDocument. Wikipedia has enabled the ‘Book’ extension to MediaWiki, the content management system it [...]

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QuickWiki is a handy experimental Firefox add-on for users who work with Wikipedia and Wiktionary regularly. The Firefox add-on adds a quick look up feature into the web browser that can be used to quickly gain information about a selected word or phrase on a website. QuickWiki opens the information that it has retrieved in [...]

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