
Wikiwand - Enhance Your Wikipedia Experience
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As featured on TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Fast Company and The Next Web:
Wikiwand is an award-winning interface that optimizes Wikipedia's amazing content for a quicker and significantly improved reading experience!
The extension simply replaces each Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikiquote link with a link to the same article on Wikiwand.
By leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies, Wikiwand helps users quickly grasp key points and related topics without the need to sift through lengthy articles.
► New clean layout for optimal readability ► Chat, top questions and timelines for every article ► Great modern typography options ► Convenient fixed table-of-contents ► Map for locations ► Quality score for every article ► Quick preview when hovering over links
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- Outstanding UI and design
- Improves readability of Wikipedia articles
- User-friendly interface for quickly learning new information
- Supports ongoing development efforts if upgrading to pro version
- Presence of ads on Wikipedia pages
- AI features considered useless and intrusive
- Increased paywalls and required accounts for better functionality
- Overall decline in quality and user experience over time
- Introduction of ads and AI features diminishes user experience
- Frequent complaints about UI changes making it less enjoyable to use
- Users feel that the add-on has become a 'cash cow' and strayed from Wikipedia's principles
- Users are seeking alternatives like Modern for Wikipedia due to dissatisfaction
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Risk impact
Wikiwand - knowledge, with context requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Allows retrieval of a user’s browsing history, presenting a notable privacy risk.
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Risk likelihood
Wikiwand - knowledge, with context has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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