Wikiwand - knowledge, with context

AI-driven wiki aggregator created to enhance user experience on Wikipedia by streamlining knowledge consumption

Wikiwand - Enhance Your Wikipedia Experience

Wikiwand - knowledge, with context is an award-winning Firefox add-on that optimizes Wikipedia's content by replacing standard links with a user-friendly interface. It leverages AI to help users quickly digest key points and related topics, featuring a clean layout, timelines, and enhanced media. Enjoy an immersive reading experience while maintaining access to the original articles on Wikipedia.

Add-on stats

By: Wikiwand
Daily users: 15,691
-67
Version: 10.0.1 (Last updated: 2024-08-28)
Creation date: 2013-10-02
Weekly download count: 78
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • webNavigation
  • menus
Size: 17.20K

Other platforms

Wikiwand - Wikipedia, and beyond (v10.0.9)
4.74 (7,940) 300,000
Not available on Android
Wikiwand - Wikipedia, and beyond (v10.0.9)
5.00 (4) 2,564
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Add-on summary

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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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • 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
Cons
  • 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
Most mentioned
  • 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
User reviews
This used to be a good extension, which I used for many years across different browsers and devices. Today I've had enough and I'm going to uninstall it. Before they started remaking it, it was very good. It was essentially a better layout for Wikipedia with not much else to it, but that's why I liked it. It made it clearer to read, easier to use, and just overall felt like a more updated version of Wikipedia's UI. Combined with an ad blocker, it was perfect. However, since the remake, it is worthless. It is so bloated. The majority of the page is taken up with AI stuff, and it wants you to use it constantly. It has made the layout even more confusing - while before I felt like it was very intuitive and more Wikipedia like, now it's just added so much more junk and confusing elements. Wikipedia is way easier to use. With this latest update, I'm done. I was already getting frustrated with the way pictures were handled. If you clicked on it, there would be various bits of information that covered over part of the picture. Then there was so much blackspace that it wasn't always that much more visible than in the article. You zoom in and it's barely better. Now, I tried to look at the picture it used for the cover image, which no longer shows up in the sidebar as well. I clicked on it, and it was much the same as it used to be, although the information/other pictures below now fades away. Good! However I tried zooming in, because it was still not a big picture. It not only barely zoomed in, but moved the maybe two pixels bigger image around with my cursor. So now I had a very vaguely enlarged picture of some people that bounced around as I tried to exit out of it. Cool!!!!!! Good thing I never use Wikipedia to look at things like art as someone who enjoys art history!!! The AI is too much, the paywall is too much, the needing to have a separate account for it is too much. And now they have continued to just make the UI worse and worse. I'm done here. I'm so sad that this has gone this way. I'm so disappointed. They had something good and it's useless now. I'd rather use normal Wikipedia, and that's the first time I've said that in many years.
by Celena, 2025-02-05

Used to be slim, nice and handy, but feels a bit bloated since the remake. The possible settings for UI adjustments are great, however the popup is very annoying to always come back since I constantly use private windows, and Wikiwand won't save any settings, instead asks again every time. AI features are really unneccessary for me. Just please make it save my settings and not ask again for a login everytime.
by Niklas H, 2025-02-05

UI is outstanding and is packed with a lot of nice features but jeez what's with this AI being everywhere and especially so paywalled and ads too
by Nhân Trí, 2025-02-02
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Add-on safety

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
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