Ask Wikipedia is a browser (action) extension, built using Chrome APIs, for Chrome. It enables a lightning-fast one-click Wikipedia search using the Special Search API, and a search algorithm that additionally disambiguates the search string.
Simply select a piece of text, right-click, and Ask Wikipedia
The extension is available on the Chrome Web Store. Check it out here.
You can also directly clone the repository and check out the source code.
To run:
- Open the Extension Management page by navigating to
chrome://extensions(The Extension Management page can also be opened by clicking on the Chrome menu, hovering over More Tools then selecting Extensions) - Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode
- Click the LOAD UNPACKED button and select the cloned Ask Wikipedia repository
- Happy Wiki'ing !