Reviews for Wikipedia Reading Lists
Wikipedia Reading Lists by Wikimedia Foundation
Review by generic
Rated 1 out of 5
by generic, a year agoThis doesn't work. First I had to search reviews to find out how to use it (button in search bar), but the button requests a log in to my account. When clicked, this goes to wikipedia website which I was already logged in to. Tried logging in and out, not working. What is the point of this?
32 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jo, 6 days agoAppears to work as advertised. Installed the add-on while already logged in to Wikipedia, and the add-on detected that I was logged in and worked immediately. Note that you have to have reading list syncing already enabled on your mobile device.
One downside is that you can only save to your general reading list (called "Saved" on mobile and "Saved pages" on desktop browser), not any of the named/themed lists that you can create in the mobile app. You also cannot read FROM that list via this plugin, only save TO it. If you want to read from your list, you have to find it on your profile page at the Meta Wikimedia website, under "Special:ReadingLists/" - Rated 1 out of 5by Draemdy, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by samy, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by jellybeanfeind, 2 years agoHandy for the sake of just adding something to my saved articles, but I wish I actually had access to my saved lists on desktop, both for saving articles and pulling them back up. At least it does what it says it does on the tin.
- Rated 4 out of 5by FoxyDaddy99, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dawid Ferenczy, 2 years agoThe extension allows to save a Wikipedia article to the default reading list.
But that's it, it doesn't implement any other reading list feature - a particular reading list to save the article into cannot be selected, it's not possible to remove the article from a reading list, reading lists cannot be managed or even viewed, so it's actually a "write-only" feature - you can save articles, but you cannot view them, so it's close to useless.
I'm using the reading lists to save articles I'm interested in while on a mobile phone to read and research them later while on a desktop computer. But there's unfortunately no way to access those reading lists on a desktop. - Rated 3 out of 5by xfox360, 2 years agoWould love the addon because the idea is great. But it doesn't even show up. :(
EDIT: its in the address bar lmao
You should make it a bit easier to see visually. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16339559, 2 years agoIt's better than nothing. It does only one thing: add articles to your account's default reading list with a single click; you can not view or edit the contents of any reading list via desktop browser, however, since I typically want to save articles while I'm on desktop to read on my phone later when I get a spare moment, and not vice versa, this is adequate for my purposes.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17223273, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by kcl, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Codrin.B, 4 years agoThis is way too basic. I would like to browse/manage/edit my reading lists from the app in the browser. All you can do is add articles to an "invisible" reading list and then find them in the app
- Rated 1 out of 5by TheConservativeCrocodile, 4 years agoThere is literally no way to view your reading list or remove entries. All you can do is click the icon to add articles to the default list.
That isn't helpful at all! Why does this even exist? Just another Wikimedia Foundation project that nobody asked for.
Do they really expect users to add entries on PC and then open the app on your phone to view or delete entries?
You already implemented the sync feature, which is far more complicated. So, why don't you go all the way and add editing and viewing to the browser extension? - Rated 4 out of 5by JKurosaki, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 黒崎十兵衞 • (Jubei Kurosaki), 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Saizō Kurosaki, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amir, 4 years agoi really needed this.
i can sync my Wikipedia app list to PC , Perfect.
i think you should log in to Wikipedia site and tick "remember my log in". - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14971963, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15663007, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Zeklandia, 5 years agoDoesn't work. Says I need to login, but the login button does nothing, so I can't.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kholdfyre, 5 years ago