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Wikipedia Search

by Corbin Davenport

v11 Updated Apr 21, 2025 85.32KiB
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★ 4.37
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Description

Wikipedia Search is an extension that adds multiple ways to search Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, right in your web browser. You can type "wiki" in the browser search bar, then the Space or Tab key, to start a search with live suggestions as you type. Also, selecting a word or phrase in a web page and opening the context menu will show a Wikipedia search option. You can change the default search language to any language Wikipedia supports, and the optional multi-language search feature can override it with a different choice. Search results can be opened in the desktop Wikipedia site, the mobile site, or Wikiwand. Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia Search is in no way affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Reviews (16 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2019-12-23
Kramp Motika

Why it stopped working on vista?

★☆☆☆☆2019-03-26
John Connor

Completely misleading donation request pretending to be the "real" wikipedia . . I consider this a scam to obtain monies under false pretences

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-23
T c

all it does is show me the wikipedia settings. no search at all.waste of an extension

★☆☆☆☆2017-03-30
Ben Coutu

Stopped working for some reasons.

★☆☆☆☆2015-05-09
Kate Fedrick (Fedginator)

how is this better than wikipedia search classic which now been discontinued?

★☆☆☆☆2014-04-01
hawk 7886

This USED to be my favorite extension. Now it's total crap. How sad.

★☆☆☆☆2014-03-31
Gregory Fallis

This used to be a useful extension -- the update has essentially rendered it unusable. It does NOT work as directed. I also miss the 'W' Wikipedia button.

★☆☆☆☆2014-01-21
Christoph Sapinsky

I have removed it literately hundreds of times,but it wont uninstall from Chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2014-01-17
Suzanne Adams

my app worked for a while...and now when I click on it nothing happens...I don't know how to remove it and re-install it...but I loved it while it worked!

★☆☆☆☆2013-06-13
Ellen Hallman

It never downloaded.

★★☆☆☆2016-12-14
Yulia M

slowing up the page load

★★★☆☆2021-05-26
Theodore Kloba

I wanted a context menu search, and it works for that. Not happy that it altered my existing address bar search settings without asking. I use wikipedia often enough that "W" was my shortcut. This extension made the shortcut longer.

★★★☆☆2019-03-26
Liam Goldbeck

Quite decent

★★★☆☆2018-09-21
Kevin Kelly

It's good if you use wikipedia in one language predominantly. I often search in different languages and there's no quick way to switch languages between searches.

★★★☆☆2014-09-25
T'Svai

This is a great extension - when it works. I actually find myself missing the old version with the separate search bar, because this version periodically breaks and stops working (typing 'wiki' into the url bar does nothing), and the extension has to be disabled and re-enabled to fix it. If it weren't for this problem, I'd be rating it five stars.

★★★☆☆2012-08-12
Dave Ceck

it does not save the language , always in english

Permissions (3)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu notifications Can show desktop notifications storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 11
Updated Apr 21, 2025
Size 85.32KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026