Top Wikipedia Tricks that will change the way you use it
Wiki in Hawaiian means ‘quick’ and this crowd sourced quick user edited encyclopedia is the biggest knowledge resource on earth today. When you search for anything on google, 70% chances are that you will land on a page of wikipedia. We use wikipedia everyday either by choice or via google unintentionally and it is truly democratic knowledge lane on internet. In this article, I'll show you things which you probably don’t know.
➡ Use Wikipedia Nearby to find something about the place you are visiting or you recently shifted.
Copy and paste this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearbyin your browser to find articles around the current place. It will initially ask you to allow wiki to know your location. Confirm it and browse through the most important facts, places or important info around the place.
➡ Use simple wikipedia for simpler version of the wikipedia articles
If you want to use a simpler version of the article just visit: http://simple.wikipedia.org
Also when browsing an article, you can just replace en with simple. You will get a much lucid article.
➡ Download the article as a pdf to read later
Click on the download as pdf link and you will get a pdf version of the article in arranged fashion. You can easily read this downloaded book on your kindle or mobile device. If you wanna read the article later and even when offline, download those articles as pdf and save it in your device.
➡ Download entire wikipedia and keep it on your PC for offline usage
You can download the whole wikipedia on your computer and can also use it even in the absence of internet. The file size is approximately 10GB. Click Here to download the entire wikipedia. You can also download Wiktionary , Wikiquote and other wiki project websites here.
➡ Use wikipedia to enhance knowledge about events
You can search for a particular month in wikipedia to view the set of events in that particular month.
You can alternatively browse Wikipedia Current Events/Affairs Here
➡ Use Wikipedia as a Translation Tool
If you are finding it difficult to get the translation of a word in a language. Just find that term on Wikipedia and then select the language from the left sidebar to know the translation.
➡ Read Random Wikipedia Article
Copy and paste this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randomto read a random article from Wikipedia. You can also set it as a homepage in your browser to read a random article from Wikipedia every time you open the browser.
➡ Create a Book from Wikipedia combining important articles
You can easily create a book out of Wikipedia with cool index pages and structured content. To do this, follow the steps below:
⏩ Click on create a book link on left sidebar.
⏩ Click on start book creator Button.
On clicking start book creator Button you will go to the article where you previously were. Wait, there is a Book creator menu visible on the top of the article as shown in the image below.
⏩ If you want to add this article to your book, click on add this page to your book. If not, visit on any other article you want to add on your book. This Book creator menu will always be there on the top to let you add that page to the book. You can also click on suggest pages. On clicking this a related set of articles will come as a list so that you can add them in your book if you want.
⏩ Click on show Book to finalize the book.
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