Wikipedia Quick Hints

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Display quick description of the terms in the Wikipedia article.

Latest reviews

• (2022-01-25) Farley X Wilbur: I like the extension except for the small question mark under every highlighted word or phrase in the Wikipedia article. Just underline the word (which it does) and skip the question mark. All the subscript question marks on the page disrupt the flow of reading the article needlessly. We all get it, we know how to use the extension.
• (2021-08-11) Álvaro de la Paz Franco: ¡La mejor de todas!
• (2019-03-07) Anders R Ese: Thanks, exactly what I wanted :)
• (2018-06-26) Dmitriy Davydov: A'm absolutely love it. And want to find somewhat similar extension that previews content of visiting link but not exclusively for Wikipedia.
• (2018-06-01) Funto Komolafe (Funtø): Amazing, I forgot I even had the extension until I recently got used a different browser. I thought wikipedia did the pop-ups by itself. But apparently, it's this extension. So useful. Thanks for making my life easier.
• (2018-05-02) Nick Pappas: Great and extremely useful extension. IMO beats the built-in functionality in wikipedia. It does have some issues like buggy behavior when you have too many pop ups inside pop ups (by too many I mean like 3 or more)and some slight issues with pop ups not closing properly but overall it is a 4 to 5 stars extension.
• (2018-01-24) Relax: Exactly what i want, thank you developer with this useful idea, Wikipedia is full of endless amount of links, it makes thing easier for many people.
• (2018-01-12) kritin sai: Could this be extended to other sites also?
• (2017-12-01) Windy City: So useful!
• (2017-08-22) Anny Cardenas: muy bueno
• (2017-06-29) Stratos Tsirtavis: No longer works sadly. Used to be an essential tool.
• (2017-06-18) N. Casey Gilliam: Does exactly what you want it to do. I have not found any cons to this extension. I Wikipedia everyday and this extension is a must have. Update: This extension no longer shows proper introduction paragraphs and only displays the image. It says the articles do not have the proper format. I'd love if this were updated to fix this. This is one of my favorite extensions and I'd like it to work again.
• (2017-06-11) Ivan MeL: Now get in hints every time the message "Some articles do not have appropriate structure", before it has been worked very well.
• (2017-05-12) Diego Junquera Méndez: Herramienta de gran utilidad
• (2016-09-30) Msso Bmssk (bmsskmsso): I like this app
• (2016-07-20) Gianni Gaudio: question marks under all wikipedia's iperlink are annoying. some items like the wikipedia's logo in the pages are hidden
• (2016-04-19) Francesco Passaro: Praktisch. Gibt es vergleichbare Erweiterungen?
• (2016-04-17) Anish Ghosh: Very helpful extension. I was in a quest for this type of extensions for a long time.
• (2016-01-17) Valerii Bogomolov: many thanks for this great extension!
• (2015-12-10) Phil Ricketts: Good extension, but buggy. I often have to click around sometimes to get rid of the popup.
• (2015-11-01) Nice idea but there are problems: 1. Bad design 2. Very small text 3. Takes a bit of time to close even when I move my cursor 4. Those question marks
• (2015-07-29) Scott McMasters: I like it and it's what I want, but the text is way too small. They need a better design.
• (2015-05-03) Recommended extension, but it breaks the wikipedia logo at the top left.
• (2015-04-20) Pruthviraj A: Excellent extension. Everything at a glance.
• (2015-04-09) Marco Lonardi: I find my self check Wikipedia so often that i need a quick link to W. This extension with a click job done 90% of the times.
• (2015-04-04) Jonathan Bean: This changes everything. Information galore. I don't need to open every term that I need to know to understand an article now.
• (2015-01-15) James Miller: This is a fine feature, but it is a little slow to respond and hangs up, sometimes not closing for several minutes after the cursor has moved off of a word. I will probably uninstall and use the 'right-click' extension instead, but if you don't like the 'right-click' this is a perfectly good alternative.
• (2014-11-06) Marek: Great extension, and more reliable for me than wikipedia's own beta feature with similar functionality. The only problem I had with it was the little question marks, which I've found reading other reviews here are easily removable (click the extension icon the in the URL bar when viewing a wikipedia article, then click the gear icon in the pop-up box that appears). I only wish that the ability to access the options was more apparent (i.e. right clicking on the icon extension and simply selecting "options", which seems to be the standard approach). In any event, a great extension.

Latest issues

• (2023-06-17, v:2.20) Shmuel: page translated: not working at all
  I find myself reading wikis in languages that I don't know well (if the English version is written long winded or insufficient) Google Translate is surprisingly good at page translation (with some hiccups) however the popups don't even come up, instead it says "Can't get definition for this term"
• (2019-05-03, v:2.20) Florian Breitwieser: Make it work on mobile site
  I love your extension, however unfortunately it does not work on the mobile version, which I prefer to use even on the desktop.
• (2019-02-14, v:2.20) Marek: Adustable pop delay
  Hi, can you please add an option to adjust the amount of time need to hover over a link for the quick hint to appear? This is related (for me) to a frequent issue with quick hints not going away once the mouse is moved off of them. Sometimes, in these cases, it becomes problematic to get the quick hint to go away at all. Perhaps some kind of dismiss option, an "x" in the corner possibly, to able to explicitly dismiss a quick hint box? Thanks! In spite of the above noted issues, this has been my, by far, preferred wiki pop up extension for quite a long time now.
• (2018-12-11, v:2.20) Adware
  The extension installed adware onto my computer. I was seeing fake ads when I would use google search
• (2018-09-10, v:2.20) John S Wolter: Extra advertising in the box
  The Q-H box has "Mark Article" & "Read Article" at the bottom. It took me a while to match the box to the Q-H app name. I think it's not too much to put "Quick Hints" as text to the left of the current text at the bottom. JSW
• (2018-09-10, v:2.20) John S Wolter: Q-Hnts in WikiP search results pages
  Q-H doesn't display its mouse hoover box in a search results page. Also running R, WikiP Companion & WikiP Search Settings. If Q-H isn't able to do this, I'd suggest adding it, JSW
• (2017-09-24, v:2.20) question marks
  Is it possible to hide the little question marks that follow each definable term in an article? Thank you.
• (2017-09-08, v:2.20) Oleksandr Kravtsov: Mobile version of Wikipedia
  "Can't get definition for this term" message on mobile version of Wikipedia.
• (2017-07-07, v:2.17) Adrienne: Stopped working
  Every single term says "can't get definition for this term"
• (2017-07-02, v:2.17) Julie Smith: Improved selector
  I've improved the selector (see my 18 Jun post), which fixes an issue where some popups were showing the Table of Contents for some pages. var query = '#bodyContent [lang] #mw-content-text > div.mw-parser-output > p, ' + '#bodyContent #mw-content-text > div.mw-parser-output > p, ' + '#bodyContent [lang] > ul:first-of-type';
• (2017-06-23, v:2.17) Marek: Can't get definition
  All the pop ups say: "Can't get definition for this term. Some articles do not have appropriate structure" Oddly, any leading picture associated with an article is still displayed.