{"id":3900,"date":"2007-12-20T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/get-more-from-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:37:30","slug":"get-more-from-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-more-from-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Get more from Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" id=\"image3901\" alt=\"Can Wikipedia survive a Google onslaught?\" title=\"Can Wikipedia survive a Google onslaught?\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/12\/wikilogo.png\" \/>I&#8217;m a little worried that before too long I&#8217;ll be forced to betray my trusted old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>, as the mighty Google has deemed it a good idea to create <a href=\"http:\/\/software.silicon.com\/applications\/0,39024653,39169473,00.htm?r=1\">its own Web 2.0 encylopedia<\/a>, which I can already guarantee will be better. Granted, Wikipedia is a little rough around the edges &#8211; the legitimacy of some of its user-generated content can be questionable, it lacks a decent rating system, and the quality of the images isn&#8217;t what it used to be. But it&#8217;s served me well over the years and I don&#8217;t want to jack in a long-term relationship just because there&#8217;s a younger, better-looking model craving my attention.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve decided to spend more quality time with my current online encylopedia in the hope I will get so attached I won&#8217;t desert to Google, like I do with everything else (maps, RSS, instant messaging, email &#8211; heck, I&#8217;ll soon be brushing my teeth with a Google toothbrush if they keep bettering every other product out there). Let&#8217;s start by installing the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia-search-bar.en.softonic.com\/\">Wikipedia Search Bar<\/a>. OK, now when I want to perform a search from within my browser I can plunder Wikis straight away without getting distracted by that alluring Google search field in my IE toolbar.<\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t want to leave Wikipedia feeling left out when I turn to the &#8220;Big G&#8221; for searches, I&#8217;ll simply download the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlepedia-extension.en.softonic.com\/\">Googlepedia<\/a> extension. This displays Wikipedia entries besides the Google results, so I can enjoy the best of both worlds (and it wouldn&#8217;t be classed as two-timing).<\/p>\n<p>In order to increase my exposure to the wonderful user-made database, I&#8217;ll install <a href=\"http:\/\/wikireader.en.softonic.com\/\">WikiReader<\/a>, which allows me to open a Wiki document from any Windows application I happen to be using at the time. Oh, and I&#8217;ll also get hold of <a href=\"http:\/\/quickipedia.en.softonic.com\/palm\">Quickipedia<\/a>, so I can search and browse the site from my Palm handheld. Finally, by adding <a href=\"http:\/\/mediawiki.en.softonic.com\/\">MediaWiki<\/a>, I will be able to create my own Wikis and share them with others online.<\/p>\n<p>There, now there&#8217;s no reason why I would possibly want to run off into the sunset with Google&#8217;s poxy new encyclopedia when it gets released, it there? Yeah, right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little worried that before too long I&#8217;ll be forced to betray my trusted old friend Wikipedia, as the mighty Google has deemed it a good idea to create its own Web 2.0 encylopedia, which I can already guarantee will be better. Granted, Wikipedia is a little rough around the edges &#8211; the legitimacy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-more-from-wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get more from Wikipedia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336560,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/336560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}