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24 alternatives to Recursive Wikipedia

This extension loads the mobile version of links when hovered over, is usually faster than opening a new tab, and is recursive (10 frame deep limit).

Recursive Wikipedia is a browser extension that displays the mobile version of Wikipedia links in a preview when users hover over them. The previews load faster than opening new tabs and work recursively, allowing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Recursive Wikipedia launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia. Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a redesigned look, new features and customization.

    2021 · modernwiki.app · its alternatives →

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    Find information, resources and relevant links for wikiloopr.com. This domain may be for sale.

    2012 · wikiloopr.com · its alternatives →

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    Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.

    2018 · sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · its alternatives →

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    Het beste casino zonder vergunning voor Nederlandse spelers kiezen? Ontdek waar je op moet letten en hoe je een betrouwbaar platform vindt dat aansluit bij jouw voorkeuren.

    2021 · static.wiki · its alternatives →

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    Connect two articles on Wikipedia, but do it the long way. I've always been a fan of the theory of six degree of separation, but it's an overused concept when exploring the Wiki-graph. Instead of showing the shortest path, which in my opinion is "boring" and ends up connecting super-important central articles, I came up with my own method: WikiBinge selects the smaller, less represented articles on Wikipedia. In a WikiBinge path, the underdogs are the kings! How does it work? It's pretty straightforward! Compute PageRank on the Wiki-graph and assign as weight of each edge the PageRank value…

    2023 · wikibinge.com · its alternatives →

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    Generates a quiz for a Wikipedia page using parts of speech and text chunking. - alexgreene/WikiQuiz

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wiki2Map▲279

    Turn Wikipedia into a visual masterpiece

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Wikifox▲237

    Wikipedia reimagined - clean, simplified, powerful

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Wikipedia you can doomscroll

    Feb 2026 · xikipedia.org · its alternatives →

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    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia

    2021 · modernwiki.app · its alternatives →

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    Qikipedia▲107

    Instant Wikipedia summary cards on any web page

    2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    I was inspired by Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes viewer and created this small web app to browse Wikipedia in the same way. Clicking on a link opens the content in a new pane to the right. And you can resize panes. It's really nice for following rabbit holes or checking out lists from articles. Let me know what you think! Code here: https://github.com/steezeburger/wikipedia-browser

    2024 · steezeburger.com · its alternatives →

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    Wiki Journey tracks your daily Wikipedia rabbit holes in a tree format. Available on Firefox and Chrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiki-journey/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wiki-journey/lehenb... It's open source, feel free to contribute! https://github.com/demegire/wiki-journey

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia. - yashsinghcodes/wik

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TLDR This▲361

    Automatically summarize any article or webpage in a click.

    2019 · tldr.hackeryogi.com · its alternatives →

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    Small experiment of visualization of wikipedia articles as a graph using d3.js.<p>Articles with more traffic are bigger. I computed the semantic similarity using LSI with python (gensim) You have to scroll down/right a bit!<p>http://similarityapi.appspot.com/graph/?title=blade%20runner<p>There is also a JSON api: http://similarityapi.appspot.com/api/v1/?limit=100&title=blade%20runner<p>All feedback is appreciated:<p>@lucamartinetti [email protected]

    2012 · similarityapi.appspot.com · its alternatives →

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    Smarter way to browse Wikipedia

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Expand your vocabulary, one tab at a time

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Wikipedia + AR. Discover interesting Wikipedia articles around you.

    2019 · takota.net · its alternatives →

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    Wikiwand▲169

    Streamline Wikipedia knowledge and answer your questions

    2024 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →

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    Instant Wikipedia tooltips on any webpage

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    2012 · pmtarantino.github.com · its alternatives →

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