Wikipedia summary

By David Leadbeater Last update Sep 13, 2006 — Installed 622 times.


Script Summary: Display summary of Wikipedia entry as title of links to Wikipedia

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Displays a summary of Wikipedia entries as title of links to Wikipedia. For example "a link":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey
to the greasemonkey article will get a tooltip (i.e. title) like so:
!http://dgl.cx/2006/09/wikipedia-summary-example.png!

Note that this uses a cached version of Wikipedia, so it won't always be up-to-date. The summaries are of variable quality as they are automatically generated.

This script can also work with a modified version of the multiline tooltip script to give multiline summaries. It is currently available "here":http://dgl.cx/2006/09/multilinetooltip.user.js until it is integrated into the main script.