Contents 1 Toolbars for Wikipedia 1.1 MediaWiki Edit Toolbar 1.2 Wikipedia Toolbar 1.3 External tools 1.4 Direct wikipedia search from web browsers 1.4.1 Firefox 1.4.2 Opera 1.4.3 Internet Explorer

[edit] Toolbars for Wikipedia

[edit] MediaWiki Edit Toolbar

• It includes buttons for easy access to commonly used MediaWiki markup, including easy table creation.

[edit] Wikipedia Toolbar

An in-development toolbar extension for Mozilla Firefox that recreates Wikipedia's navigational links, such as "history", "watchlist", "discussion", etc. in the form of toolbar buttons.

[edit] External tools

• A Wikipedia Toolbar Button is also available for the Google Toolbar for Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) allowing direct searches from the search box or from highlighting any text on any page. It also displays the most recent pages added in a menu.

• The Advanced Searchbar also allows direct Wikipedia searches from Internet Explorer. It can be downloaded from here

• One can add Wikipedia as a 'Search Provider' for the search engine in Internet Explorer 7, you can do it here, or by clicking 'Get Search Providers...' in the drop-down menu.

• A WikiSearch toolbar is available, allowing direct Wikipedia searches from Internet Explorer.

[edit] Direct wikipedia search from web browsers

[edit] Firefox

In the Mozilla Firefox Navigation Toolbar, users can select Wikipedia as the default search engine.

[edit] Opera

Current versions of Opera have direct search of Wikipedia enabled through using the keyword "w" in the address field of the browser. An address of "w opera" will thus return the same page as you get if you enter "opera" in Wikipedia's search field and choose "Go".

For older versions of Opera where the "w" keyword is not enabled, it is still possible to incorporate direct Wikipedia search into Opera by editing the 'search.ini' file. One should add the following lines manually in the 'search.ini' file to incorporate direct Wikipedia search facility. For more information see URL shortcuts for Opera

• Name=&Wikipedia
• URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Search
• Query=
• Key=
• Is post=0
• Has endseparator=0
• Encoding=utf-8
• Search Type=0
• Verbtext=17063
• Position=-1
• Nameid=0

Since Opera 9 it is possible to add Wikipedia search by clicking 'Tools-Preferences-Search-Add' and inserting the lines mentioned above in the fields.

[edit] Internet Explorer

Users with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 can navigate to the Wikipedia english homepage and in the search bar in the upper left add the search provider from Wikipedia to their toolbar. This also provides the option to make Wikipedia your default search provider.