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:globe_with_meridians: A Google Chrome extension that allows users to preview articles on Wikipedia and other wikis.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quickwiki/bbidbpklpaghmdjnlkkhkkobcbjgbkbd
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Add a "preview on hover" feature like Wikipedia Quick Hints #10

Open vickychijwani opened 9 years ago

vickychijwani commented 9 years ago

There's another Chrome extension, Wikipedia Quick Hints, that lets users preview the opening paragraph of an article simply by hovering over the link. We should consider adding a feature like that. Seems quite handy to me.

koustuvsinha commented 9 years ago

Yes we can add a feature like that. Key point is to display the information in a visually pleasing style. The extension adds a small question mark at every link, which gets too cluttered in hover modals. We can try to make it more simpler and effective!

koustuvsinha commented 9 years ago

Logic to implement this feature : We have to extract the first paragraph of a wiki page as done by the above extension. But this will not work for Wikia.com pages. Suggest some alternative

koustuvsinha commented 9 years ago

Possible workaround for Wikia.com : upon further investigation of their source, it seems that they have meta property="og:description" tag, which has a short description on the page. We can display that

koustuvsinha commented 9 years ago

Currently implementing "Popup on hover" only for wikipedia because of the above issue. The meta property="og:description" tag contains too little information to show, so not going to explore that