Overview
Auto-links names to Wikipedia — people, places, and organizations on any webpage
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
Details
- Version0.6.4
- UpdatedApril 3, 2026
- Offered bysmagdali
- Size2.33MiB
- LanguagesEnglish
- DeveloperStefan Magdalinski
1a Charterhouse Square London EC1M 6EE GBEmail
stefan@whitelabel.orgPhone
+44 7908 408409 - TraderThis developer has identified itself as a trader per the definition from the European Union and committed to only offer products or services that comply with EU laws.
Privacy
This developer declares that your data is
- Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
- Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
- Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
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