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Wikipedia

jmilldotdevjmilldotdev27k downloads

Get the first section of Wikipedia for a note title or search term.

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This is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md).

This plugin gets the first section of Wikipedia and pastes it into your active note.

Usage

This plugin has two commands:

  • Get Wikipedia for Active Note, which gets the first section of Wikipedia using the active note's title as search term.
  • Get Wikipedia for Search Term, which gets the first section of Wikipedia for a search term.

Settings

Settings for this plugin include:

  • Language Prefix: The prefix before wikipedia.org used to access the language of Wikipedia you want. (Default: 'en')
  • Extract Template: The template to use to paste your extract. Available variables are {{text}}, {{searchTerm}}, and {{url}}
  • Bold Search Term?: If set to True, bolds the first instance of the search term in the extract
  • Use Paragraph Template?: If set to true, the paragraph template will be inserted for each paragraph of text for {{text}} in main template.
  • Paragraph Template: If Use Paragraph Template is set to true, this template will be inserted for each paragraph in the text extract. Available variable: {{paragraphText}}.
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Insert the first section of a Wikipedia article into the active note using the note title or a custom search term. Customize the extract with language selection, templates, paragraph-level templating, and optional bolding of the search term.
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Current version
1.0.3
Last updated
5 years ago
Created
5 years ago
Updates
5 releases
Downloads
27k
Compatible with
Obsidian 0.9.12+
License
MIT
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