Reviews for Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized
Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized
Rated 4.5 out of 5
4.5 Stars out of 5
459 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5Su diseño y la claridad de visualización.
- Rated 1 out of 5Oversimplies and has ads for the extension itself, which doesn't make sense. It actually says,
"Enjoying Wikiwand?
Give good old Wikipedia a great new look:
Get Wikiwand"
with "Get Wikiwand" as a clickable button to this extension page, which conveniently guided me to the review section so as to leave a poor review. Great work, dev, advertise to use the extension within the extension.
The whole extension removes utility from Wiki while replacing it with ads for itself. Especially if you are a wiki contributor, stay away from this toxic extension and don't be dazzled by it's semi-modern and over-simplified UI - Rated 5 out of 5Make Wikipedia great again.
- Rated 5 out of 5I use very frequently wikiwand when I translated from french some historical books. It is very useful especially for finding otiginal names of places, citites, etc
- Rated 5 out of 5Could ask for nothing more!
- Rated 1 out of 5NO ESTA EN ESPAÑOL :`(
- Rated 5 out of 5Got addicted. cannot use old wikipedia UI anymore
- Rated 1 out of 5Wikiwand was the greatest Wikipedia add-on ever. Now they totally screwed it up with the most intrusive, useless ads I've seen in a long time. If only they were even remotely related to the content at hand, but no, they're totally random and add no value at all. Also, they're seemingly immune to ad blockers, because as soon as you pick up the elements to block, the whole page UI gets messed up. Disgusting.
Guys, you need revenue? There are better ways, I'm sure.Developer response
posted 9 months agoHi, thanks for the review. We appreciate your comment and so in the recent releases we added the ability to check if the user has an extension or not and so now if you have Firefox extension installed you will see no more ads. Regards - Rated 1 out of 5Recently wikiland started showing intrusive ads. I wouldn't have minded an unintrusive ad but this is too much
Developer response
posted 9 months agoHi, thanks for the review. We appreciate your comment and so in the recent releases we added the ability to check if the user has an extension or not and so now if you have Firefox extension installed you will see no more ads. Regards - Rated 5 out of 5AMAZING!
- Rated 5 out of 5Simply beautiful.
- Rated 1 out of 5I used to like you, Wikiwand. You could have been great. You could have been better than Wikipedia.
But no.
Now you show ads embedded straight in the source code so you bypass adblockers. As an added bonus, they break the page now. Hooray, killing two birds with one stone! Don't even bother blocking them with element hider because they're a hydra; cut off one head it grows another.
Did you piss off your investors? Revenue running on fumes? I'm sorry but you guys have lost my respect for selling out and aggressively pushing ads onto the end user. It's funny because Wikipedia stood against ads and you people decide to go against that, full steam ahead. I doubt that 30% goes to Wikipedia.
Straight to the trash it goes, like it belonged in the first place. It was too good to be true.
If the intrusivity was an honest mistake then I will eat my words. Until then, this review stays.Developer response
posted 9 months agoHi, thanks for the review. We appreciate your comment and so in the recent releases we added the ability to check if the user has an extension or not and so now if you have Firefox extension installed you will see no more ads. Regards - Rated 1 out of 5Ads take up 1/3 of the page. Going back to the basics.
- Rated 1 out of 5Ads?? Are you joking? Uninstalled. A pity, because the extension was pretty, but ads are an absolute no-go.
- Rated 1 out of 5Uninstalled the moment they put ads on Wikipedia. Sleazy and only 30% of their revenue goes to wikipedia. Completely shameless and I will never use your product again.