Here is a simple and quite useful bookmarklet

What it does :
This bookmarklet allows you to quickly reach the wikipedia page of any given subject.

Video demonstration : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXzGt4Fd2mU

How to install it :
Simply right click your bookmark bar.
Click "add page".
Under name, type "Wiki-it!".
Under URL, copy and paste the following :

Code:

javascript:void((function(){var%20a=document.getSelection().toString();window.open("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"+a.replace('_',' '));})())

That's it !

How to use it :
While reading any sort of document, select some text ( highlight it as you would do in order to copy/paste it ) and simply press the Bookmarklet.

You can also select multiple adjacent words. Try it on this : Albert Einstein.
Simply highlight everything that is bold, click the bookmarklet and the string will be parsed correctly.

How to change the language :
If you would like to change the language of the wikipedia used, change the "en" in the bookmark "http://en.wikipedia.org/" to "http://fr.wikipedia.org" ( this would change it to the french wikipedia.

Use
"de" for deutsch,
"fr" for french,
"es" for spanish,
etc..

Question/Comments :
Please post any question / comments / bugs in this forum thread.
Feel free to share this bookmarklet with anyone !

Please tell me what you think !

Of course, as any bookmarklet you need Chrome 2.0+

Wow! You did a very good job on it. Very useful for finding definitions

I already followed all the instruction... but it seems not working for me..
Nothing happened when I started to click the Wiki-it tab after highlited the words..

Anybody would give me a clue

thx

Originally Posted by freesky

I already followed all the instruction... but it seems not working for me..
Nothing happened when I started to click the Wiki-it tab after highlited the words..

Anybody would give me a clue

thx

Could you go to "Wrench menu -> About Google Chrome" and give us your version number ?

You need to be using Chrome 2.0+, which is only available on the dev channel.
Switching to the dev channel is easy : http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Hope this helps,
Kyrax

Well impressed :-D :-D

is there any possibility to change an icon of this bookmarklet?
fe. change script somehow?

You would require an extension for that.

This is just a bookmarklet, which means it's just a piece of Javascript (code) that grabs the selected text and redirect you to the Wikipedia page, passing that selection.

@cinn

Have a look at Cleeki http://www.cleeki.com/chrome.html

A lot more than just Wikipedia l-)

That's a nice one, chef!