AboutLukas Mathis has a neat script on his blog, ignore the code, where the footnotes for his posts are displayed in little floatingdiv s when you hover over the corresponding numbered superscripts. The first thing I thought when I saw this, was, this would be pretty useful for Wikipedia
articles, where there are usually tons of citations and references.So I adapted the bookmarklet for Wikipedia. Now you probably wouldn’t want to load the bookmarklet for every Wikipedia page, especially if you really do read the citations often. So I’ve also modified the script for use with Greasemonkey.Once you've got the bookmarklet or Greasemonkey script up and running, this is what you should see: How Do I Use It?These scripts work for any Wikipedia article (the Greasemonkey script runs for URLs of the formhttp://*.wikipedia.org/wiki/* (and now for https://*.wikimedia.org/* also)). BookmarkletTo use the bookmarklet, all you'd usually need to do is copy the target of a link with the JavaScript code. Unfortunately, Google Sites strips all the code so you'll need to download the code as a file (wikipediafootnotepopup.bookmarklet.js ). To use it, create a new bookmark, and for the URL, copy and and paste the code from the file you downloaded. When you're on a Wikipedia article, just select the bookmark you created with the JavaScript code.NoteThe bookmarklet will NOT work in IE8 which handles events in a non-standard way. So far I've only tested it with Firefox 3.6.3 and Chrome 4.1.Greasemonkey Script
To use the Greasemonkey script with Firefox, you'll need to install the Greasemonkey extension; Chrome 4 supports Greasemonkey scripts natively. Once you've done that, download the script ( |
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