Title: Wikipedia Widget
Author: asimeon
Published: <strong>April 2, 2013</strong>
Last modified: May 13, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Wikipedia Widget

 By [asimeon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/asimeon/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wikipedia-widget.0.13.12.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wikipedia-widget/)

## Description

The **Wikipedia Widget** shows a Wikipedia search-formular and its search results
for the current post or page on your sidebar. On other sites (like category or front-
page) it can defined any default search-keywords or other input-field.

The search results were Ajax-based fetched from the [Wikipedia-API](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php).

**Main Features: **

 * Define a default search string or get the current post title
 * Show or hide the search form or define an alternative search form within the 
   page
 * Use cache for the search results for better speed
 * Results are clear formatted, with links and pictures

Be free for testing and suggest improvements.

### Tickets

 * Check given Wikipedia-URL at backend
 * plugin page at a-simeon.de
 * improve faq

## Screenshots

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 * Back-end configuration
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 * Front-end display search results and input

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, activate and use as
    a sidebar-widget.
 2. Set the Wikipedia URL to your country.

## FAQ

No Questions have been asked yet.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Wikipedia Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ asimeon ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/asimeon/)
 *   [ Thomas Riechert ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/triechert/)

[Translate “Wikipedia Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wikipedia-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wikipedia-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wikipedia-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wikipedia-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wikipedia-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.13.12

 * remove bug with loading values of alternative input-fields
 * WordPress 3.8 compatibilty
 * pack widget into one file
 * several small code changes
 * new loader

#### 0.13.07

 * fixed too long transient-names

#### 0.13.05

 * add cache for every search result
 * remove search trim

#### 0.13.04

 * Fixed ajaxurl
 * add alternativ search form feature
 * add cache for the default search term if used
 * test if value changed before search
 * several code changes/improvements

## Meta

 *  Version **0.13.12**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [knowledge](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/knowledge/)[search](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
   [sidebar](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)[widget](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
   [wikipedia](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wikipedia/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ asimeon ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/asimeon/)
 *   [ Thomas Riechert ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/triechert/)

## Support

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