Building a Desktop Wikipedia Checker

Posted by eldersnake on Nov 25, 2014 8:34 AM EDT
The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov 		Mail this story
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I often look something up in Wikipedia when reading non-browser documents, like PDFs, ODTs and emails. I wanted to have a little desktop window for those look-ups - somewhere I could check Wikipedia without opening a browser and without leaving the document I'm reading. This article describes how I hacked a simple 'desktop Wikipedia checker' with a shell script.

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