Reviews for Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized
Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized
Rated 4.5 out of 5
4.5 Stars out of 5
473 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5Its just so fresh!
- Rated 4 out of 5Fairly good!
- Rated 5 out of 5Why do you need the new permission? I can't find any comments from you where this change is adressed. Please communicate with us.
edit: Thank you for the quick response! We can't be cautious enough these days with Add-ons being taken over for malicous causes.Developer response
posted a year agoThis 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 - Rated 2 out of 5Latest 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 a year agoThis 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 - Rated 5 out of 5Fabulous !
- 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!