A Microsoft Edge extension to read Wikipedia articles on the more readable Wikiwand service.
Wikiwand is a service that makes Wikipedia articles more beautiful and readable. Wikiwand extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Safari are officially available. This project aims to provide an unofficial alternative with the ultimate aim of feature parity.
Note: Since this extension is from outside the Microsoft Store and you are sideloading it, you will need to enable "extension developer features" in Microsoft Edge. Follow below steps to enable this flag.
- Go to "about:flags" by typing it in Edge address bar
- Check the "Enable extension developer features..." option
- Restart your browser
- Clone or download the repo as zip (unzip after download)
- Open Microsoft Edge and click on "..." button in the upper right corner and click on "Extensions"
- Click on "Load extension" button at the bottom
- Browse to the download repo folder and select the folder and click OK
- Extension is added
Whenever you are on a Wikipedia article page, click on the extension button next to address bar and click on "Read Article" button. You will be taken to Wikiwand page of same article which is more beautiful and readable.
The Read Article button will be disabled(unclickable) if you are not on a Wikipedia article page.
This is an unofficial extension and has no link with either Wikipedia or Wikiwand.