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Wikipedia Extension Songbird

Displays the Wikipedia page for the current artist.


Wikipedia Extension



Description

Displays the Wikipedia entry from en.wikipedia.org for the artist currently playing in Songbird.

Wikipedia displays in the bottom content pane by default.




Release Notes

Version 0.8

Newly compatible with Songbird 0.7.* and 0.8.0pre!




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Comments

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siddharthagandhi
siddharthagandhi

great extension

over 6 years ago
maniacfox
maniacfox

Fab extension, would be better with max/min window controls.

about 6 years ago
tony_
tony_

Yeah this is great- would also be a snazzy idea if it also ran an "I'm feeling lucky" Q. automatically with the Song, Artist and "lyrics".

almost 6 years ago
mitaak
mitaak

very good extension, only problem is that when reading a longer article about an artist, and a different song (by the same artist) comes on, the page will reload and I have to scroll back down to where I was...

almost 6 years ago
smullaney
smullaney

Wont work with the latest build 0.3.1 - can someone please provide a fix?

over 5 years ago
stevel
stevel

The latest version has been updated for 0.4 and supports the new display panes. Yay!

over 5 years ago
renatose
renatose

can you please make it working on the version 0.5pre please?

over 5 years ago
stevel
stevel

Just uploaded a new version that bumps the maxVersion to 0.5pre. Download/install it again please :)

over 5 years ago
awesomeface
awesomeface

Is there anyway to change the location of the extension? Right now it’s always stuck on the bottom half of the page, which is agrivating when you you have a large library OR the wiki page is big.

I think a more usable interaction would to have it be tabbed. Meaning the library is on the first tab and the second one contains the wikipage.

Possible?

over 5 years ago
awesomeface
awesomeface

All of the extensions previously owned by ErikStaats is are now by the user Songbird?

over 5 years ago
Landmark
Landmark

Great extension to a great media player. I would love to be able to change from English Wikipedia to the language of my choice, Norwegian.

over 5 years ago
harmonyjim
harmonyjim

Great looking extension. I collect a cappella music. 700 cds, approx. 10,000 songs. Over 90 percent of my artists would fail the Wiki notability test (I wrote the wiki people). I would like to create my own wiki using mywiki. I would love to have a way of choosing between the public wiki and mywiki. Otherwise this extension would be quite useless for me.

over 5 years ago
harmonyjim
harmonyjim

I meant to say Mediawiki instead of mywiki

over 5 years ago
silvain
silvain

Great extension, yes, but I would like to change the lang: I would like to adress fr.wikipedia.org instead of en.wikipedia.org, but i didn’t find where is the url.
Oh please, just a little feature request ;-)

over 5 years ago
BlauerBueffel
BlauerBueffel

just the same friendly request for a language-switch this time to german

about 5 years ago
ekallevig
ekallevig

If any of you guys use the Stylish extension, you might be interested in this user style I wrote to get rid of all the chrome and crap from wikipedia’s website so I can view the information easily in a small pane in Songbird.

user style: http://pastebin.com/f46b96c91


screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/2zsbpj

about 5 years ago
Songbird
Songbird

Please file bugs in our Bugzilla @ bugzilla.songbirdnest.com, put [wikipedia] in the description and assign it to me (stevel@songbirdnest.com).

I’ll try to add the feature requests when I have time. And the first one I’ll add will be a preference for a language/localised wikipedia site instead of defaulting to en. :)

about 5 years ago
Vagn30
Vagn30

How do i unhide this? I hid this a couple of days ago, and i don’t know how to unhide it!?

about 5 years ago
ekallevig
ekallevig

Will this extension work in songbird .5 if we just change the version number in the extension file? Anyone know?

about 5 years ago
ekallevig
ekallevig

Nevermind, I just needed to uninstall and re-download. For some reason the add-on updater didn’t work for this extension when I upgraded Songbird.

about 5 years ago
enduser
enduser

View>Content Pane Bottom> Wikipedia
Select Wikipedia then Click

about 5 years ago
enduser
enduser

Thanks for this I’m looking forward to using it a lot.

about 5 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

Need to set maxVersion to 0.7pre

almost 5 years ago
abo
abo

Please add a language selektor

over 4 years ago
Jaydub2000
Jaydub2000

1.0 update plzkthx?

over 4 years ago
Seb
Seb

Great addon ! But can you update for 1.0 ! thanks

over 4 years ago
MetalHellsAngel
MetalHellsAngel

Any chance on an update for 1.0?

about 4 years ago
Seb
Seb

For change the language in wikipedia.
Install the addon + force with 1.2.0a
Go to the profile and change in extensions / {0fab887c-69db-4e79-a797-6e37e18a7062} / chrome / content / wikipedia.js
Search the web address and change "en" with other , example : "fr"

Works with 1.2.0a

about 4 years ago
MetalHellsAngel
MetalHellsAngel

can you update this please!!!!

about 4 years ago
Jerome
Jerome

Update please!!!

about 4 years ago
gregor
gregor

hi, its very nice when somebody can write a update to use it with the current version

about 4 years ago
risingjsun
risingjsun

Wikipedia Extension doesn't work for Songbird 1.1.1, Build 1018 (20090309144748).

about 4 years ago
Jerome
Jerome

Update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

about 4 years ago
sauntimo
sauntimo

Whilst the wikipedia bit of MashTape isn't working, it'd be awesome if this was made available to us on 1.1.2 :)

about 4 years ago
ihavnoclue
ihavnoclue

Please update for 1.1!

about 4 years ago
EEKaWILL
EEKaWILL

Update anytime soon?

about 4 years ago
harmonyjim
harmonyjim

Does anybody from Songbird actually read these comments?

For me to use Songbird, I need this add-on. I need to input my own artist info, because almost all of my collection is indie artists that won't be found in the regular Wikipedia. I would use a Grease Monkey script to divert Wikipedia to my local Mediawiki.

MashTape seemed encouraging until I saw santimo's comment above, saying the Wikipedia part doesn't work.

Why offer an add-on if you don't keep updating it to work with the latest version of Songbird?

about 4 years ago
EEKaWILL
EEKaWILL

It actually works fine with the newest version of songbird you just need to download the .xpi file extract the install.rdf and open it with a text editor and change "<em:maxversion>0.8.0pre</em:maxversion>" to
<em:maxversion>1.1.2</em:maxversion>

almost 4 years ago
EEKaWILL
EEKaWILL

and then of course put it back in the .xpi file

almost 4 years ago
krivi
krivi

Please make it compatible with 1.2.

Thank you

almost 4 years ago
yleciot
yleciot

could you please update this extension, and make it compatible with 1.2, thx.

almost 4 years ago
reup
reup

I have updated a version that works with 1.2, but I have no idea how to upload this version so I will explain how to make your own

first, download the last version of this add-on (0.8) and save it on your desktop
open it (it is a .xpi but some softwares can decompres it (like ark for linux users)
open the file install.rdf with a text editor (I use kate on linux, I beleive wordpad for windows would work)
modify the version to 1.2 AND the max version to something above 1.2
save back the file into the compress .xpi
install from the add-on manager

in fact this solution works for a lots of add-on if there was no change in the code as this add-on will show

reup

over 3 years ago
reup
reup

new version available on http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1726

over 3 years ago
Marko
Marko

Sry "reup",
but your update didn't work, so it upload it a second time.
THANK YOU very much for your help how to update old versions!

new version available on http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons/1737

over 3 years ago



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Last Updated: almost 5 years ago
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Name: Wikipedia Extension

Author: Songbird

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