A Dashboard widget for browsing the free, user-created encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Search for articles, view and edit right from the Dashboard, complete with pictures and links.
Features:
- Compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2 (sometimes 3 or more) letter code on the back. Defaults to English.
- External links open in your preferred browser.
- Click the ‘wikipedia’ button to the left of the search field to open the current article or search term in Safari.
- The little ‘?’ button to the left of the search field fetches a random article.
- Back and forward buttons with page caching.
Download and Installation: Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
Interested in the source code? Just download the file above. If you’re on a Mac, right-click the .wdgt file, and select Show Package Contents. If you’re on something else, just browse though the Wikipedia.wdgt directory. The guts are in Main.js.
