Wikipedia Lists

Browser extension to use Wikipedia’s Reading Lists, just like in the apps

Install

Context

The year was 2018 and Wikipedia released Synced reading lists for its mobile apps, but what about the Browser and Desktop? 5 years later, the official extension remains pretty minimalist.

I have found Wikipedia’s Reading Lists to be a wonderful way to organize research. And not being able to manage them on my main work device was the primary motivation for developing the extension. And I truly hope this extension can be useful to other people as well.

Principles

• Full-featured, the extension aims to cover all features from mobile apps, and possibly go further.
• Privacy-friendly, no information is stored anywhere by extension’s domains.
• Fair user experience, the extension follows the Wikipedia’s Design Style Guide.

Demo

Running and Building from source

warn: not tested on windows environment

First steps

# install node.js, version >=18
git clone https://github.com/yassernasc/wikipedia-lists.git
npm install

Run on Firefox

npm run dev:firefox

Build for Firefox

npm run build:firefox

Build for Chrome

npm run build:chrome

Features and Roadmap [2/5]

• [X] Auth
  • [X] Use session tokens
  • [X] Login Needed page
• [-] Lists [6/7]
  • [X] Show lists
  • [X] Reload
  • [X] Create
  • [X] Delete
  • [X] Update
  • [X] Sort
  • [ ] Search
• [-] Articles [3/6]
  • [X] Show articles
  • [X] Move
  • [X] Remove
  • [ ] Select
  • [ ] Sort
  • [ ] Search
• [X] Save article from current tab
• [-] Support [2/3]
  • [X] Chrome
  • [X] Firefox
  • [ ] Safari