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Authored by: vaughnsc on Fri, Jun 1 2007 at 9:58AM PDT

Yet another skinless cat with a nice touch:

I prefer the 'javascript in the bookmark bar' methodology and adapted the following Javascript lifted (in all fairness) from the Spanish Dictionary at rae.es - it has a twist: it can display a query dialog as expected, but will skip it if you've already highlighted (selected) a term in the frontmost browser window (useful when dealing with long phrases or convoluted, unfamiliar spelling):




javascript:Qr=window.getSelection();if(!Qr||Qr==''){void(Qr=prompt('Search%20Wikipedia%20for:',''))}if(Qr)location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'+escape(Qr)

Naturally, if you wish to direct the query to a non-English version of Wikipedia, it is a simple matter of tweaking the URL. You may also want to consider the previous comment of using WP's 'search' url instead of the less-forgiving 'article' URL.