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Wikipedia Bookmarklets
Wikipedia Bookmarklets
A bookmarklet is a piece of Javascript code which can be used as an
ordinary bookmark in a web browser. The bookmarklets below send the
currently highlighted text to the search engine of Wikipedia, the free collaborative
encyclopedia, then display the results in a new browser window. If no
text is highlighted when the bookmarklet is
activated, a popup dialog appears and allows the user to enter search
terms.
Javascript needs to be enabled in your browser for this to work. Pick
your browser below, and follow the instructions.
Netscape and Mozilla
If your Personal Toolbar (a place to store commonly used bookmarks) is
not shown, click on the corresponding toolbar tab below the File menu.
Then drag and drop the following link to your Personal Toolbar.
Wikipedia search
Alternatively, you can right-click on this link and select Add
bookmark.
Or you can first try it out by clicking on the link, then typing in some search text. The selection highlighting feature only works if the bookmarklet has been added to your bookmarks as explained above.
Note: Tested on Netscape 4.7/Windows, Mozilla 0.9.6/Windows.
Internet Explorer
If the Links section (a place to store commonly used bookmarks) is not
shown, go to View -> Toolbars -> Links.
Then drag and drop the following link to your Links
section.
Wikipedia search
Alternatively, you can right-click on this link and select Add to
Favorites.
Or you can first try it out by highlighting some text right now, and
then clicking on the link.
Note: Tested on IE 5.5.
Opera
Opera doesn't seem to support the getSelection() method, so this
bookmarklet can only be used to type (or paste) in the Wikipedia search terms.
Right-click on it, then select "Add link to bookmarks..."
Wikipedia search
Note: Tested on Opera 6.0.
Credits, Comments and Copyrights
The idea for the above came from the bookmarklets of the LEO German-English dictionary. My versions are in the public domain.
Please let me know if something doesn't work right of if you have a
Wikipedia bookmarklet for a different browser.
Last Change:
03-Jan-2002
Axel Boldt
<axel@uni-paderborn.de>
