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This article covers several useful and powerful Wikipedia search engines.
Wikipedia has become a virtual " Encyclopedia Britannica' for a lot of us.
Wikipediais social web at its finest and freest.
That’s what we’re doing."
Wikipedia is also being increasingly used and cited by schools, colleges and scholars.
So, let me also ask you here - how do you use Wikipedia?
Not forwhat, buthow exactly do you browse through it?
Wikipedia at15,000,000articles in more than270 languagesis an ocean of information.
Some articles in Wikipedia are just that intensive.
WikiMindMap brings the diagrammatic relationship of mindmap to Wiki content.
The central topic is in the center and directly related topics linked around it on the first level.
Clicking on the text takes you to the Wikipedia entry.
Clicking on the green arrows brings you to the next level.
There are also links which take you to external resources.
VisWiki
We have covered it earlier when it went by the name of VisualEncyclopedia.
Since then, they have added more categories.
But the same visually intuitive way to browse and read Wikipedia information has remained.
It also has the Wikipedia content followed by a " related to' mindmap diagram.
Video on Wikipedia
Qwika
Qwika is a Wikipedia search engine straight up.
But it not only searches Wikipedia but also other wikis.
The homepage says that it searches 21,964,380 articles in 1,158 wikis.
Qwika also searches wikis across 12 languages which you’re able to select from the dropdown.
The search results from other language wikis are translated to the language chosen in the dropdown.
There’s also a Qwika toolbar for Firefox and IE.
Clusters helps to organize thousands of search results into more organized groups or topics.
Clusty also searches through Wikipedia.
it’s possible for you to check out the clusters on the left side of the page.
you’re free to expand the clusters by clicking on the little red icon.
Clicking onRemixreveals the other submerges topics.
Searching for more search engines?
This site helps you to find our facts and meanings in scraps that aren’t lengthier than ten words.
you could think of it as the Twitter equivalent of Wikipedia.
Tenwordwiki.com shows you that sometimes briefness can also be the soul of information.
Sometimes with a pinch of humor.
you’ve got the option to download it for Windows, Mac and Linux.
you’re free to also choose to go the torrent way.
Okawix lets you choose the language among the 253 it supports.
There arefour other waysto take Wikipedia offline.
Wikipedia Game
Wikipedia is not only about barrages of hyperlinked information.
It can give you a bit of a break in between all your Wikipedia research.
You are given a random word at the beginning (e.g.
Portmanteau) and a final article as an end goal (e.g.
Your job is to go from the first article to the last, clicking as few links as possible.
That sounds like it could do something to our fun quotient as well as our intelligence one.
Wikipathsis a similar game based on Wikipedia but as a Greasemonkey Firefox add-on.
Think of these ten addresses as different kinds of agents who go about gathering Wikipedia information differently.
Dive into ourpast archivesof posts on Wikipedia and you will get a few more.
Tell us if you depart from the beaten track while trawling through Wikipedia.
