Wikiwand. A nice dress for Wikipedia

Last updated on 15 February 2025

WikiWand is an online tool that will allow you to rediscover the Wikipedia encyclopedia with a new skin. More ergonomic, more modern and simply … more beautiful.

WikiWand is a kind of virtual magic wand that will turn Wikipedia's old dusty interface into a rutilating carriage This will highlight the incredible richness of the unavoidable encyclopedia. Try this free tool for Wikipedia, you will be surprised.

Wikiwand offers a beautiful graphical interface to Wikipedia

While Wikipedia remains very modern in its concept of a free and collaborative knowledge tool, the same cannot be said of its graphical interface, which has taken a long time. Wikiwand remedies this with a new dress that offers a new user experience to the venerable institution.

WikiWand is more than just a painting. This graphic tool introduces an essential notion in learning and reading: the notion of pleasure. Alongside the somewhat austere interface that you and your students know, WikiWand offers a completely different visual experience highlighting the visual and the frames and offering a much clearer and more modern navigation. The menus are clear, the grip is immediate.

Pleasant and flawless ergonomics

The interface includes a side menu with the table of contents of the article, a navigation bar with links to other languages, the possibility to return to the original display, a new typography with the possibility to change the font, size, justification, and access to related articles. You can thus compose a tailor-made navigation in a few clicks.

The side table of contents is retractable. The images are reorganized and highlighted. Image quality is central in Wikiwand. The effect and richness of Wikiwand is of course less evident on Wikipedia articles with medium-quality images or no images at all.

Editing a page is possible. To do this, the software switches to the classic editor of Wikipedia.

The creators of WikiWand have focused on simply making this online encyclopedia, which is no longer on display, more beautiful. Images in value, work on typography, previewing links contained in articles in the form of boxed …Wikiwand creators did a good job.

In order not to spoil anything, you will also be surprised by the speed at which the site is displayed despite the richness of the graphical interface. WikiWand is displayed almost three times faster than the classic Wikipedia interface. A real discovery.

An extension for most browsers

WikiWand is in the form ofa free extension for Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Once installed on your favorite browser, when you go to Wikipedia, the beautiful Wikiwand dress will appear on the screen. You can install it without hesitation, you will not want to go back. The mobile version for smartphones and tablets is not bad either.

Wikipedia before:

The same page with WikiWand:

Do you remember the beautiful coloured plates in the centre of our old dictionaries that we liked to browse to get out of the typographic grey of the rest of the dictionary? WikiWand is a bit like that. Your students should love … and so should you.

Link: WikiWand