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Desktop Users Can Now Enjoy Wikipedia Page Previews

April 28, 2018 by Satyapriya


Wikipedia has been quite a popular and widely used online encyclopedia that has tonnes of information on a various range of topics. It is impossible not to find any information you need in Wikipedia. This popular informative platform has recently introduced a new feature or update for its users which let them view page previews without actually clicking the link. Wikipedia page previews feature allows the users to actually view page previews of the links without actually going inside the links.

But it is known that Wikipedia is one of the most invaluable resources and may not be relied on always.

Wikipedia has a lot of entries on anything and everything you can think of. And many of the pages in Wikipedia contain links to other Wikipedia pages which until now we used to click and discover to know what is the link related to, but now with this recent update rolling your mouse cursor over the link will actually allow you to take preview of link and then you can actually decide whether to visit the link or not.

As of now, this feature is exclusively offered to the desktop users. If you think this page previews feature is more annoying than useful for you, then you are also given the choice of disabling it. You just need to open the page preview, then click on the settings cog, hit the disable option and save the changes.

We hope you utilize and enjoy this new Wikipedia page previews feature.

Filed Under: Featured, Tech News Tagged With: page previews, wikipedia, wikipedia page previews

Turn Wikipedia pages that you want into PDF books

September 4, 2016 by Satyapriya

Wikipedia has a lot of information about many things that may be useful for many. It is an online encyclopaedia which has a lot of information that anyone can check out and make use of it for their various purposes. But have you ever thought of saving the Wikipedia pages as eBooks for offline reading at a leisure time. Yes it is really possible and I am explaining you about the simple steps about how to create PDF eBook from Wikipedia pages very easily in this piece of article.

Here is a step by step procedure about how to do that

  • First of all you have to open any Wikipedia page and then enable the book creator option which will be available in the Toolbox menu which can be seen at the left hand side of the web page.

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  • Now if you want any more web pages to be added in your eBook, then simply browse through the web pages and simply click on the add this page to your eBook option which will be shown on the top of the page. You can just hover to any link in the webpage to add it to your webpage without having to open it separately.

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  • Once you are done with the selection of your needed web pages into the eBook, then you can check the eBook by clicking on the Show book button that will be available on the top of the web page in the book creator tool bar.

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  • There you can add various other details for you eBook like title, subtitle and then download the eBook in PDF format, which you can transfer into your mobile and read it later on.

Wikipedia actually is a very useful website that holds a lot of information, many of us actually use a lot of information from it regularly, but many don’t know that we can actually download pages into an eBook, and that is why I presented this article, hoping you to make use of it.

 

Filed Under: Featured, How to Guides Tagged With: ebook, wikipedia

Try exploring Wikipedia in a different and visual way

September 2, 2016 by Satyapriya

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia makes it easy for the internet users to go in search of any information. With a new website called Wikiverse, one might find the exploring process more innovative and can be able to indulge more time searching for various information.

Wikiverse website turns the Wikipedia experience into an outer space exploration from a space ship.

You can zoom in and out to view constellations of related topics, and can see how a star is interconnected with the other stars.

By clicking on the open in the top right hand corner, you can be able to see the Wikipedia information right there in the Wikiverse.

Searching for a particular thing on Wikipedia will give the knowledge about that particular topic, but if you start searching Wikiverse, you can be able to know at least a bit about the related topics which help to widen your knowledge.

So, don’t miss to use Wikiverse, the next time you surf for something on the web as it will help you to explore many more things thus helping to get more and more knowledge about various other things.

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: visual, wikipedia, wikiverse

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