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Wikilinker

by smagdali · Functionality & UI
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Auto-links names to Wikipedia — people, places, and organizations on any webpage

Users
21
−2 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#147K
#122K among extensions
Version
0.6.5
updated 14 Apr 2026

Users

monthly, 7 months
01122Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 21 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 7 months
001Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Wikilinker

Wikilinker automatically adds Wikipedia links to the people, places, organizations, and other notable names mentioned in any webpage. Each name is linked only on its first occurrence, keeping the reading experience clean. How it works: Wikilinker scans article text for proper nouns and acronyms, matches them against a bundled bloom filter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter) of the top 1,000,000 Wikipedia titles (ranked by pageviews), and adds unobtrusive links directly in the page. Everything happens locally in your browser — no API calls, no external requests, no logging. The extension works on any website. It has been optimised on 19 news sites including BBC News, NPR, CNN, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and others, and uses fallback selectors to find article content on other sites. Features: - 1,000,000 names in a bloom filter bundled locally (under 2MB) — no network requests - First-occurrence-only linking keeps articles readable - Smart filtering avoids false positives on common words - One-click enable/disable from the toolbar popup - Works on any website, optimised for 19 major news sites Privacy: Wikilinker collects no data. No analytics, no tracking, no accounts. See our full privacy policy at https://github.com/smagdali/wikilinker/blob/main/PRIVACY.md An updated version of the Wikiproxy, originally built in 2004. Source code: https://github.com/smagdali/wikilinker

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−1−4.5%00.00
30 days−2−8.7%00.00
6 months+11+110.0%+1+5.00

Version history

4 versions recorded
0.6.514 Apr 2026
0.6.43 Apr 2026
0.6.220 Mar 2026
0.6.19 Mar 2026

Details

Category
Functionality & UI
First seen
9 Mar 2026
Size
2.3 MB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Support
github.com
Extension ID
niflckgdjlcciahgcankljebehnmlpii

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
storage
Site access
<all_urls>
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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