Wikiwand - knowledge, with context

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

Total ratings

4.06 (Rating count: 617)

Review summary

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Pros
    Cons
    • Introduction of ads
    • Forced AI features
    • Requires sign-in for certain functions
    • Limited functionality compared to previous versions
    • User data collection
    Most mentioned
    • Used to be great
    • Now full of ads and AI features
    • Users prefer the default Wikipedia experience
    • Transition from a useful tool to a commercial product
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    Recent rating average: 1.50
    All time rating average: 4.06
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    Date Author Rating Comment
    2024-12-24 Firefox user 14961228 Too much ads and AI-slop
    2024-12-24 OzMerry So, I wrote a negative review yesterday (which I've now deleted), but it appears that the Wikiwand add-on was updated yesterday and it's now working again. Yay! The AI Tools block on the right can be minimised and an ad blocker takes care of ads, but I may just upgrade to a paid version anyway since I use Wikipedia a lot and WIkiwand (pro) is very reasonably priced and supports the existing and ongoing development efforts of a great add-on. FWIW, I think it's worth it to get a much better reading experience than ordinary Wikipedia for frequent users.
    2024-12-23 Richard Yan Used to be great with beautiful styles. When the AI stuff rolled out, I felt like it was bad taste but stuck with it. Then came the ads, on top of hard work by volunteers editing wikipedia. I guess we do live in a capitalist society with insatiable corporate greed, but the least I could do is to stop using this expired plugin. Oh and also, no, some lines of CSS is not worth $5 a month.
    2024-12-23 OzMerry Well, this is very disappointing. I have used Wikiwand for a long time and loved it. I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but I made a donation to Wikipedia today and now the add-on doesn't work at all! Wikiwand was working fine yesterday. I haven't experienced any issues with ads or AI crap as other reviewers have (I haven't subscribed to anything, paid or not), but going back to ordinary Wikipedia is a let-down. I tried the Modern for Wikipedia add-on as suggested by another reviewer, but it doesn't seem to do much and doesn't offer the (albeit limited) "text", "width" and "color" options as Wikipedia does. FWIW, I didn't like the latest changes to how images were displayed in Wikiwand, either.
    2024-12-22 Firefox user 9943902 Ad filled garbagefest.
    2024-12-22 Tamm Horsfall Putting ads and AI-slop on a free to use webpage is peak greed, well done. You are a shadow of your former self.
    2024-12-22 linuxenjoyer It was good for a while but they added AI stuff nobody asked for and you now have to be logged into their system for data collection if you don't want to get served ads.
    2024-12-22 Nick I'll stick with Wiki's default look if it means no ads, no random AI stuff, etc. Have been a user for some time, but I guess all good things must come to an end.
    2024-12-22 Firefox user 18744013 I've used this extension for quite some time and it used to work flawlessly. As of recent updates Wikiwand started to inject advertisements into Wikipedia pages even though Wikipedia, by principles, is free from ads. It's absolutely unacceptable.
    2024-12-22 Firefox user 18743329 Now with ads
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