Wikipedia Quick Hints Wikipedia Quick Hints

Productivity
Version: 2.20
Last Update: 2017-07-08

Overview

Wikipedia Quick Hints is a Chrome extension developed by Aliaksandr Astashenkau. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Wikipedia Quick Hints is 2.20, updated on 2017-07-08.
6,000+ users have installed this extension. 113 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: dfsq.info

Display quick description of the terms in the Wikipedia article.

A simple extension that makes reading Wikipedia articles more convenient.
When reading how often do you have to open an additional cross-article just to glimpse quickly at the meaning of a term you do not know?
Now with Wikipedia Quick Hints getting definitions of unknown terms has become as simple as just hovering the cursor over a respective link. The definition pops up automatically. Images zooming is another useful feature of the extension.
See screenshots for example.

Please rate if you find it useful. Comment if you have questions, find bugs or have ideas for improvements.

Changes history:

In version 2.2.0
- Adjusted to new Wikipedia article structure. Bug fixes.

In version 2.1.7
- Fixed image zooming issue.

In version 2.1.6
- HTTPS pages support.
- new extension versioning.

In version 2.15
- new setting - hide question marks.
- minor improvement.

In version 2.1
- new feature - image thumbnails inside definition popup.
- quick little bug fix.

In version 2.0
- new feature - hints within another hint popup;
- settings page simplified;
- several bugs fixed.

In version 1.46
- fixed number of bugs.

In version 1.45:
- added new option to enable/disable images zooming.

In version 1.42:
- fixed several minor bugs.

In version 1.4:
- pressing Esc now closes the image preview popup;
- get definitions without using a hotkey, just hover the link;
- notifications about new features;

In version 1.3:
- restructuring and code improvements;
- icons change;
- some bugs with the hint position;

In version 1.2:
- fixed several bugs;
- added quick pictures zoom option.

*** ATTENTION ***
Due to the changes Wikepedia developers made to the structure of the articles WikipediaQuickHints had a lot of problems with getting correct definition and hence in most cases poped up useless "Can not get definition for this term ..." message. Please report the problems so that I could fix problematic places.

Thank you for using it! :)

Rating

113 ratings

Total Installs

6,000+

Information

Last Update

2017-07-08

Current Version

2.20

Size

64.24KiB

Author

Aliaksandr Astashenkau

Website

dfsq.info

Category

Productivity

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avatar Farley X Wilbur
2022-01-25

I like the extension except for the small question mark under every highlighted word or phrase in the Wikipedia article. Just underline the word (which it does) and skip the question mark. All the subscript question marks on the page disrupt the flow of reading the article needlessly. We all get it, we know how to use the extension.

avatar Álvaro de la Paz Franco
2021-08-11

¡La mejor de todas!

avatar Anders R Ese
2019-03-07

Thanks, exactly what I wanted :)

avatar Dmitriy Davydov
2018-06-26

A'm absolutely love it. And want to find somewhat similar extension that previews content of visiting link but not exclusively for Wikipedia.

avatar Funto Komolafe
2018-06-01

Amazing, I forgot I even had the extension until I recently got used a different browser. I thought wikipedia did the pop-ups by itself. But apparently, it's this extension. So useful. Thanks for making my life easier.