Wikirank is an online application which can show you hot topics on Wikipedia. It displays most read articles and trending articles (articles with highest spike) in the last 30 days. There is a search feature using which you can search for a particular Wikipedia entry and view how popular it was in the last 30, [...]
If you want to know which Wikipedia pages receive the most edits, head to Wikirage.com. It is website that tracks Wikipedia pages for edits and shows you top 30 most edited Wikipedia articles over selected period of time (hour, 6 hours, day, 3 days, week and month). The application also displays flags that have been [...]
VisualWikipedia is a Wikipedia visualization tool that enhances it by adding additional features. As they mention on the site, “VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information. It is designed to provide a fun place to learn stuff in an efficient manner. ” And it certainly does a good job in adding context [...]
Snapask is a cool tool which delivers information such as wikipedia articles, stock quotes, weather, flight status, dictionary and many other stuff through email. It is basically meant for cellphone users to get information easily by sending an email to ask@snapask.com and sending the question in form of a command in the subject line ( [...]
Wikipedia-Roll is an interesting mashup application that lets you navigate Wikipedia articles in a completely different way. It organizes the article content by distinct items and definitions, and presents them in a nice visual interface. While some may find it a bit confusing I personally think it’s quite convenient once you get used to it. [...]
DeletionPedia is an interesting website that Wikipedia fans should find quite handy. The website is basically an archive for deleted Wikipedia articles. Here you can search and read pages that were previously removed from English Wikipedia. There are currently about 63,500 deleted pages in its database, and more being added on a regular basis. Features: [...]
Lexisum is a quick Wikipedia search engine with a couple of very useful features. Firstly, Lexisum returns only Wikipedia summary and not the whole article. Usually these are the first 1-3 paragraphs from the article page and less than one page long. And secondly, Lexisum lets you easily format summaries to your printer settings and [...]
Wapipedia lets you access, search and navigate Wikipedia articles in a mobile-freindly manner. Just point your mobile browser of choice to Wapipedia to get all the goodness of Wikipedia on your phone. Apart from the obvious search functionality Wapipedia also has ‘Random’ button for jumping from one article to another. Quite handy if you’re on [...]
Simple web app to lookup and convert Wikipedia articles to MP3 recordings. Once converted, you can either stream audio recordings straight from a browser window or download and store it on your PC or portable player (iPod, MP3 player or mobile phone). No email or registration required. Feature List: Convert Wikipedia articles to MP3 audio [...]