Wikipedia Preview
Wikipedia Preview brings free knowledge to your site in the form of a Wikipedia article preview popup. With Wikipedia Preview, a reader can see a short summary of words or concepts in your content by hovering or tapping on the preview popup, as they read through your content page.
Wikipedia Preview is an official plugin developed and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
The plugin is entirely free to download and implement as it serves our non-profit’s mission to provide free knowledge for everyone.
Benefits
- Leverage an enormous collection of free knowledge to provide context immediately when your readers are curious.
- Enable users to stay engaged by giving them context while they read.
- Available in over 300 languages, so you can provide, where available, context in a language different from your site.
- No need to explain a concept that is not directly related to the article you are writing, add a contextual popup instead.
- Use the same process you use today to add hyperlinks to your articles or use the Gutenberg editor custom tool.
Features
- Handles any link to a Wikipedia article regardless of language, lead image presence or length.
- Works for Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-To-Right (LTR) languages.
- A built-in gallery to dive into article images.
- Can be disabled for any page using the post metadata sidebar. Look for the Wikipedia Preview section.
- Gutenberg editor custom tool to search for Wikipedia articles and visualize Wikipedia Preview for readers.
How to use
After you download and install the Wikipedia Preview plugin, simply add a link in your site content to any Wikipedia article URL and it will be turned into a preview.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.