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Search wikipedia using Saft context menu.
Authored by: KirbyK on Feb 17, '05 09:09:48AM

It's easy, but it's not so easy that "make a shortcut and type something in your address bar" is going to suffice for non-programers. Here's what worked for me:

Under Safari>Preferences>Saft>Shortcuts add the following for Name, Shortcut, and URL:

Wikipedia
Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%@&go=Go

(The trick there was to get Wikipedia to accept multiple word selections.)

I find Answers.com saves me some time and I like having one link instead of several. It includes a dictionary, thesaurus, *and* Wikipedia.

Add a Saft shortcut as above, using:

Answers
A
http://www.answers.com/%@

Each works on text selected in Safari. Each should work from the address bar.



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