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See Wikipedia Articles Before You Click With Inline Article Viewer
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:30 AM on February 7, 2008
Firefox with Greasemonkey only: Tunneling through Wikipedia can be pretty time-consuming, given the dense number of links that take you sideways and elsewhere. The Wikipedia Inline Article Viewer, a free Greasemonkey user script, helps you save time and find relevant information by providing a quick preview of linked articles on the same page as the one you're browsing. The script places a small icon next to each article link that activates the pop-ins, but only on Wikipedia page—if that function could be extended to off-site links, it could move to the super-helpful category. As it is, it's still a good way to find, or avoid, information on a great resource. Wikipedia Inline Article Viewer is a free download that works with Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension.
Tags: featured greasemonkey user script | preview | wiki | wikipedia
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Orri
Posted 6:42 AM 7/2/08
The Cooliris Previews add-on provides this functionality for all links anywhere: [addons.mozilla.org]
Orri
paulangles
Posted 8:43 AM 7/2/08
Snap.com's Snap Shots Add-On ([www.snap.com]) provides Wikipedia summaries not only from within Wikipedia but also Google and Yahoo!, links on blogs, etc. We have versions of it for Firefox, Internet Explorer and even Safari.
Paul Angles
Marketing Director
Snap.com
paulangles
matwilko
Posted 8:43 AM 7/2/08
There is a built-in Wikipedia function to do this. If you are logged in, go to Special:Preferences and then select the Gadgets tab. Tick the Navigation popups box.
It's been around for a while, and you used to have to manually add it to your theme file, but now Wikipedia has it built in.
matwilko
vfreak
Posted 10:42 PM 7/2/08
Great, downloaded and now using into firefox. Thanks Lifehacker!
vfreak
leafnode
Posted 5:42 AM 9/2/08
I use Cooliris Previews, like ORRI above, for all sites other than Wikipedia - for Wiki I use Navigation Popups mentioned above. It has many features, not only previews, very handy while editing wikipedia.
leafnode
zro
Posted 11:42 AM 9/2/08
There are lots of ways to customize Wiki functionality, look, and feel. Depending on the active skin (default, monobook) you can edit your users monobook.js file.
[en.wikipedia.org]
There's a slew of scripts that include the above mentioned functionality, and much more... (my favorite, vandal-fighting-tools). check it out, don't abuse, help the project. Long live the project to sum of all human knowledge!
[en.wikipedia.org]
zro