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Reviews for Wikiwand - Wikipedia Modernized

Wikiwand - Wikipedia Modernized by Wikiwand

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  • by Firefox user 15086705, 7 years ago
    It does what it says. Entries are now much more pleasing. An annoyance is that if you're editing in Wikipedia, you start with Wiki's standard layout, but after preview it goes back into Wikiwand mode.

    The biggest problem is that the Wikiwand site now can capture your every access to Wikipedia. That's why I uninstalled this even though I liked the other results.

    I would've given this 4 stars if not for the privacy issue.
  • by Igor , 8 years ago
    Latest version is suspicious. It says only "small fixes", but it asks for additional permissions - access browser activity! Besides that nice add-on.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    This webNavigation permission is needed for us in order to be able to set cookie for the wikiwand.com domain when your page is loaded. We need this cookie to let our backend know if the corresponding user has the wikiwand extension or not. Later we will sync functionality of the Firefox extension with the Chrome extension and, for instance, Firefox user will have an ability to Ctrl+Click on terms and give immediate Wikiwand pop-up with term definition. To implement such a thing we need to have an ability to inject our client JS scripts into the pages. Please refer our Chrome web store where you will find more details about further functionality
  • by 18HopeCSF, 8 years ago
    It's nice and cool, but I don't like the idea of promoting a website that just copies wikipedia. Also, there are not sooooo many "cool features" as you imagine when you read the description.
  • by Firefox user 13960301, 8 years ago
    Cool idea, nice style, but it's not an extension. It's just a different website with contents taken from Wikipedia.
  • by Firefox user 13831667, 8 years ago