Reviews for Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized
Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized by Wikiwand
12 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by sdf64, 2 months agoThe updated view is difficult to navigate, uses blurry images as backgrounds, and doesn't support navigating through talk pages for editors. The way it's designed is for readability without integrating other functionalities as it doesn't use CSS themes but rather a URL with back-end to process Wikipedia articles - which may contribute to lag.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14561823, 3 months ago長年お世話になりましたが、オリジナルWikipediaの使い勝手向上とWikiwandの使いにくい進化のために利用を中止しました。
使い始めた当時、サイドバー式の固定された目次に最も価値を感じていましたが、現在はやや使いにくいもののオリジナルにも搭載されました。
無意味なフローティング効果、広い空白などの見づらいデザインになった事もマイナスですが、Ctrl+クリックで新しいタブでリンクを開けなくなった事は致命的でした。
尚、元々IMEを使用して入力する言語はしっかりとサポートしておらず、検索フォームが上手く動作しない問題を抱えていて、これは改善されていません。 - Rated 2 out of 5by Martijn, 8 months agoGreat idea, but execution is poor. Has too many issues, distractions (install on firefox banner when you've got it installed...) and weird features. Like how it doesn't play nice with Dark Reader and the useless but very prominent AI summary. For the last couple of weeks every article only has an intro and an "Oops something went wrong: 404" error so I finally switched to Modern for Wikipedia.
- Rated 2 out of 5by mMm, a year agoUninstalling Wikiwand after years of use due to broken formatting and annoying video ads that pops up (I don't even know if the video is an ad. It just show a woman at a coffeeshop?!). I recommend anyone who uses Wikiwand to compare the pages to the original Wikipedia page because the content does not match anymore. SAD!
- Rated 2 out of 5by harpercix, 3 years agoTrès bonne idée mais lag un peu trop et ne permet pas de partager (facilement) des liens wikipedia.
- Rated 2 out of 5by MarkoF, 4 years agoLooks nice, but the central column with the text is so narrow that it renders the page unreadable and useless.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15086705, 5 years agoIt 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. - Rated 2 out of 5by Igor , 6 years agoLatest 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 6 years 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 5by 18HopeCSF, 6 years agoIt'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.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13960301, 6 years agoCool idea, nice style, but it's not an extension. It's just a different website with contents taken from Wikipedia.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13831667, 6 years ago