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Interesting Wikipedia Mashups and Hacks

You have seen some useful Wikipedia tools, now let’s check out a couple of more interesting Wikipedia Mashups and hacks that make browsing Wikipedia wikis all the more fun. Interesting Wikipedia Mashups & Hacks Wiki Scanner – Be warned before you edit the Wikipedia entry of your own product or organization.

Read Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia Itself

Read Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia Itself
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is popular how-to book on Wikipedia that has all the information you need to get started with editing pages on Wikipedia. You can now read or edit this book online on the Wikipedia website itself.

Download Offline Wikipedia DVD via BitTorrent

Download Offline Wikipedia DVD via BitTorrent
Finally, some good use of BitTorrent.  Wikipedia edition for schools, which started back in 2006, has released a new edition comprising of over 5500 hand-picked Wikipedia articles in a single DVD.

How to Open a Wikipedia table in Google Docs

How to Open a Wikipedia table in Google Docs
Here is neat trick to load a Wikipedia data table in Google Docs. Let’s take the list of countries by population for instance. Google Docs allows HTML to be imported via the “=ImportHtml” function.  The function requires the URL of the HTML document, the HTML element to extract data from (table) and the position of the HTML element (2nd table).

Read Wikipedia on Mobile Phones through Email

Read Wikipedia on Mobile Phones through Email
SnapAsk is useful for people who have e-mail access on the go (via cell phone, Blackberry, etc.) but their mobile browser is too slow. They can get information from the web via email.

Yahoo Glue Pages Now Available in all Countries

Yahoo Glue Pages Now Available in all Countries
Yahoo Glue is like a more comprehensive version of Google Universal Search. Type in a search query and you can view web pages, news headlines, images, videos and even blog posts related to your search topic all on one easy-to read page.