Thursday
Mar262009
Making it easy to search Wikipedia from Firefox
Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 2:39PM This tip will allow you to type "w anything" in your firefox location bar and it will take you straight to the page describing that topic on Wikipeda.
This is far more powerful than a normal search on Wikipedia because it uses Google, although it redirects straight through so you may not even notice it.
Note, this requires Firefox 3 or later.
Here is how:
- Go to the Bookmarks menu and click "Organize Bookmarks"
- Right-click on "Unsorted Bookmarks" and select "New Bookmark"
- Fill in the following fields:
Name: Wikipedia Search
Location: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=%s%20site%3Aen.wikipedia.org&meta= (all on the same line, no spaces)
Keyword: w - Click "Add"
Now, test it by typing "w Freenet", you should be taken straight to the Wiki page. Because its Google, it will tolerate misspellings, inexact word matches and so on.
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Reader Comments (15)
Sure miss hearing you (and Steven Starr for that matter) on KPFK's Digital Village Radio Program. Would love to hear you talk about this and all the other cool new things you've discovered since the last time you were a guest on the show.
Hey Ric, nice to hear from you! Would love to speak on Digital Village again next time I'm back in LA (living in Austin TX these days).
Nice trick especially since i got rid of the added search bar due my minimalistic ways. I also used this same technique to add google searching from the address bar using the location of "http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=%s" and g as the keyword
Or you can just go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page , right-click the Search input box, and choose "Add a Keyword for this search..."
Don, that would use Wikipedia's own search, which in my experience is far less effective than Google's "I'm feeling lucky".
Ian, actually Don's method is more effective. Search for 'helicopter' for example. Don's method takes you to the right article while IFL takes you to the article of a particular model
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