Wikichan

Wikichan is a WebExtensions addon and userscript that displays a popup with information from Wikipedia and other sources.

Features

• Wikipedia article summary source
• English dictionary source via OwlBot
• Search bar to manually query providers
• Open links to source pages

See To-Do for upcoming features.

Usage

While holding the ctrl key, click on a word in any webpage. A popup will appear with information for that word and groups of words around it.

Installation

Automated release builds and addon store entries coming soon.

Clone and build from source for your platform.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Dophin2009/wikichan
cd wikichan
yarn install

If you want to enable the OwlBot provider, create an OwlBot API key and create a .env file:

OWLBOT_TOKEN=<token>

Greasemonkey Userscript

The userscript has been tested on Tampermonkey. It does not work on Greasemonkey.

Build the script and copy:

yarn build:ujs      # builds to dist/ujs/wikichan.user.js

For Qutebrowser

Until qutebrowser has better Greasemonkey support (see #3238), persistent cross-domain storage is accomplished via a tiny server with an SQLite database.

Build the script and copy files:

yarn build:qutebrowser  # builds to dist/qutebrowser/

You will need to start the server when you start up qutebrowser.

Firefox Addon

Build and sign the addon:

yarn build:firefox  # builds to dist/firefox
cd dist/firefox
yarn web-ext sign --api-key <api-key> --api-secret <api-secret>

Chrome Extension

Build the extension:

yarn build:chrome   # builds to dist/chrome

With Docker

Pass in the desired target value:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg TARGET=<target> --output dist .

Contributing

To-Do

Current work is being done on the rearch branch.

• Manifest and build WebExtension
• Cache results (per provider)
• More provider choices
  • English dictionary provider
  • Any language Wikipedia
  • Other language dictionary
• Settings menu
  • Use library for certain cache/storage backends
  • Cross-domain cache and settings in qutebrowser
  • Input API tokens instead of at compile-time
  • Enable/disable providers
  • Dark/light themes (migrate to styled components?)
  • Option to select by character
  • Per-domain settings
• Tabs to show results from individual providers
• Automated release builds
• Testing
• i18n
• Legacy extension support

Credits

This project was inspired heavily by the extension Yomichan, a Japanese-learning tool.

Created originally for Conestoga High School's 2018 CodeFest.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Public License v3. See LICENSE for more details.