Wikipedia Preview/partners

    

Why Wikipedia Preview?
With the vast amount of content online, helping people to stay on your content can be a constant challenge, especially when your mission is to inform and educate them. When people read articles, they often leave the page to try and get context elsewhere, either by following a link or even leaving altogether.

When we faced the challenge of users losing context on Wikipedia, we introduced Page Previews. Page Previews solved the core problem of users needing to open multiple tabs to gain an understanding of a word or concept within the context of the subject they were reading. With Page Previews, whenever a reader hovers over or taps on a link to another article, a short summary of the subject and an image (if available) is displayed. With this, the reader can decide whether they wish to visit that subject more thoroughly before continuing with the current article. With Wikipedia Preview, we bring the power of Page Previews to your site. Readers can get concise and visual contextual information from Wikipedia within your website or webapp.

Wikipedia Preview is a great fit for:


 * Educational institutions
 * Informational providers on important societal topics like gender, health, finance and education
 * GLAM institutions
 * Independent news publishers
 * Websites who care about teaching their users new and interesting things but do not want to provide  long form written content

Publishers
Your content brings readers to you. They learn from you too. Combining the task of providing content and contextual information at the same time is a challenging task. Keep users engaged with your content by giving them context in the moment they are curious.


 * As a publisher that cares about sharing information or educating users, tap into vast free knowledge to provide context immediately when it is needed
 * Enable users to stay on page/on site by giving them context while they read
 * Get associated with the Wikipedia brand/Use the power of the Wikipedia brand to provide additional neutrality/trust to your content
 * Available in over 300 languages, so you can provide, where available, context in a language different from your site
 * Freely use the Wikipedia trademark
 * Works on mobile websites
 * Does not affect site performance

Content creators
It is important for you to be concise. Easily provide additional context to your readers by showing them a popup from Wikipedia that gives quick information on what additional information would be good for them to know as they read your article. Do this without changing  your article creation flow.


 * No need to explain a concept that is not directly related to the article you are writing, add a contextual popup instead
 * Use the same process you use today to add hyperlinks to your articles

Tech teams
It is easy to implement Wikipedia Preview. As a  small javascript component,  it takes  less than 20 minutes to set up.


 * 3 step integration process that takes less than 20 minutes to set up
 * Does not affect site performance any more than a regular hyperlink would
 * Built for mobile browsers