Wikipedia has quietly been working on a variety of features behind the scenes as part ofits beta program.
You’ll need to be logged in for the features to work (obviously).
you’re able to set up a new accounthere.
Once you’ve made an account and logged in, head to the beta features pagehere.
When enabled, cards will appear when you hover over a link and display a summary of that page.
Get Related Content with the Other Projects Sidebar
Wikipedia isn’t the only Wiki around.
You may have stumbled on projects like Wikiquote or Wikimedia Commons, but they tend to be fairly segregated.
Theother projects sidebaradds links to related content.
Load Large Pages Faster with HHVM
Wikipedia’s tweaks aren’t just user-facing.
Small articles and stubs probably won’t be affected much, but larger pages likeEbolaload much, much faster.
In fact, most of us would probably prefer to use Google.
The company is clearly aware as theNew Searchproject aims to fix the problem.
Sometimes it’s just easier to punch the search box in Wikipedia itself if you’re already there.
