Wikipedia related pages
— Last update Aug 24, 2008 — Installed 246 times.|
Script Summary:
Adds a related pages box to the sidebar (uses http://pedia.directededge.com API) |
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This script uses http://pedia.directedge.com web service to find Wikipedia articles related articles and adds them in a box in the sidebar (of the default skin of the Wikipedia).
It works very good in the english Wikipedia, but not so good in other languages Wikipedias, because pedia.directedge.com API only works in the english Wikipedia.
For example, if you are at Anthony Kiedis article in the spanish Wikipedia, you can go to John Frusciante article, but you can't go to Flea article because in the english Wikipedia the article is called "Flea (musician)" but in spanish Wikipedia is only "Flea".
Also, there are a lot of articles that simply don't have the same name in english and in the localized version, so that articles will not have any related articles (and no box should show at all).
Those drawbacks are not faults of the userscript (as far as I know) but http://pedia.directedge.com web service. When the web service get updated to support other Wikipedias beside the english one, the script may be updated. Until then, if you find that this script isn't useful in your favourite Wikipedia, you can add an exception for your Wikipedia.
