3 Websites That Make WikiPedia More Fun

By: Karan Goel | 29th April 2010

Wikipedia at over 15 Millions articles in more than 270 languages is ‘planet of information’. Just like there are different ways to catch a fish, there are also different ways to angle for the information that’s there.

Wikipedia is social web at its finest and freest. As Wikipedia co-founder and promoter Jimmy Wales had said long back –

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.

Now, what I’m going to show you are useful and powerful WikiPedia search engines. All you need to do is put in a search with a keyword into a regular search engine and there’s a high chance a reference from Wikipedia will pop up at the head of the results.

WikiMindMap

If you are familiar with mindmaps, you will know that they are useful for getting a helicopter view of any topic, especially if it’s a complex one. Some articles in Wikipedia are just that intensive. WikiMindMap brings the diagrammatic relationship of mindmap to Wiki content.

Video on Wikipedia

Getting video on Wikipedia can only make it more complete. Video on Wikipedia which is trying to advance the cause of getting videos on Wikipedia. The submissions are forwarded to Wikipedia. All this goes to show that as promised, we will see a lot more articles loaded with videos.

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 can select from the dropdown. The search results from other language wikis are translated to the language chosen in the dropdown.