Tools for Wikipedians

by openstrings

  • Updated March 8, 2012

About this Collection

A (very incomplete and growing) list of handy Firefox add-ons for Wikipedia editors. Some are useful for browsing in general, but especially for Wikipedians; others are explicitly for editing.

4 Add-ons in this Collection

ChatZilla by Gijs Kruitbosch, Robert Ginda, others

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars 151 reviews

13,800 users

A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
Collector's Note a simple IRC client. #wikipedia-en and #wikipedia-en-help, among others on the freenode network, are very useful places to idle. Ops or other powerusers should adopt mIRC or similar though.

Wikipedia (SSL) by SSL Search Bar

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews

23 weekly downloads

Wikipedia is an openly-editable, free content internet encyclopedia. This search bar add-on utilizes SSL to protect searches between You and Wikipedia.
Collector's Note Now obsolete. I recommend HTTPS Everywhere, which will force Wikipedia (and just about every other website by default) to secure. Get it at https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Wikimedia Commons by openstrings

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review

5 weekly downloads

Search for files in Wikimedia Commons with one click.

Simple English Wikipedia by openstrings

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review

1 weekly download

search the Simple English Wikipedia with one click: an easy-to-read alternative to the English Wikipedia.
Collector's Note From the POV of a simplewiki contributor, this is obviously useful to me- but it's also a good opportunity for enwiki or other language Wikipedians to give their knowledge to a project that doesn't know it all yet, or just to find an easier-to-read alternative :)

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