Visual Wikipedia is a visual mashup of Wikipedia information and Youtube videos. The service works much like the regular Wikipedia website with the difference that it adds additional data sources and visual information about each phrase.
The entry PHP will for instance display part of the Wikipedia article on the top of the results. A [...]
Visual Wikipedia
Become a Wikipedia poweruser
You, like me, will no doubt spend a significant amount of your time on Wikipedia so you might as well make your browsing and editing as easy as it possibly can be. Several userscripts, Firefox extensions and small tricks exist which can help maximise your Wikipedia experience.
The most useful tool to improve the browsing of [...]
Edit Wikipedia Articles Anonymously In The UK
You might have heard the news that several UK Internet Providers are restricting to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia after the Internet Watch Foundation identified the Wikipedia page of the Scorpions album Virgin Killer as a “potentially indecent image of a child”. Listing the page on the watchlist had the effect that several Internet Service Providers [...]
Remove adverts on Wikipedia
Wikipedia are currently having their annual fundraising drive and consequently a large ‘encouragement’ to donate appears on every single encyclopedia article, which is an annoyance.
Whilst it is possible to ‘collapse’ the advertisement to a much smaller one, having to do so is about as big an annoyance as the original advertisement.
A popular Wikimedia-themed newsletter, Wikizine, [...]
Get Free Images, Video and Sound from Wikimedia Commons
When creating a presentation, a web design, a leaflet or a brochure, it is important to find suitable images to use. Whilst one option is to pay for stock photos to use under a restrictive licence, another option is to find free (gratis and libre) photos.
Wikimedia Commons is the repository which Wikipedias and other Wikimedia [...]
Download And Use Wikipedia Offline With Firefox
Zipedia (via Instant Fundas) is actually the second (Wikipedia Taxi was the first) application that downloads Wikipedia and provides offline access to it’s contents. The main difference between Wikipedia Taxi and Zipedia is that the latter is a Firefox add-on which adds the Wikipedia offline search right into Firefox. The contents of Wikipedia can then [...]
WikiTaxi Takes Wikipedia Offline
WikiTaxi takes Wikipedia offline by processing Wikipedia backups and providing a browser like experience. It works by downloading the article backup of the selected language from Wikipedia and importing that backup into Wikitaxi. It is compatible not only with Wikipedia but also with other parts like Wikibooks or Wikinews.
The software program provides a great way [...]
