Unless you’ve been living a very sheltered life offline over the past five years, you’ve probably heard of and even visited Wikipedia at some point. 

Wikipedia is an online open source reference site that anyone can edit.  While the existance of such a site requires some trust and has a few problems, overall the information you get off Wikipedia is pretty accurate and helpful.  

I’ve found Wikipedia very useful on several occasions, but there is definitely some room for improvement.  If you have the Greasemonkey extension installed on your Firefox web browser, you can use Greasemonkey scripts to help improve the behavior of Wikipedia.   Here are a collection of my favorite Wikipedia Greasemonkey scripts.

Wikipedia Greasemonkey Scripts

  • Google Search Sidebar – Adds a sidebar with search results from Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Flickr, and Youtube. Please report any bugs.
  • The Movie Dude – Cross-links movie sites so you don’t have to.
  • WikEd – A full-featured in-browser editor for Wikipedia and other MediaWikis.
  • Wikify – Adds a Wikify button to Gmail.
  • Wikipedia Auto-Login – Automatically logs you into Wikipedia if Firefox is set to remember your password.
  • Wikipedia Clean and Professional -  Changes Wikipedia’s layout to be more clean and professional.
  • Wikipedia Image Link Fix – On image pages, removes the link to the image if no larger version is available.
  • Wikipedia Inline Article Viewer – Adds an icon next to links to other articles on Wikipedia pages. When clicked, the linked article is opened inside a inline frame without leaving the original article.
  • Wikipedia Modified Warning – Shows a warning if an English Wikipedia page has been modified within the last X minutes (default is 5).
  • Wiki Sidebar Tweak – Keep the sidebar of Wiki’s always on top and keep the languages you know on top in the ‘other languages’-box.

Know of a useful one I missed?  Let me know in the comments below!