Wikipedia Look-Up

Developed for the Adobe Air platform, Wikipedia Look-Up is a small-sized application that gives you the possibility to quickly look up information on Wikipedia articles. It doesn't launch your web browser, displaying all the necessary information in its own window. The app doesn't come packed with complex options, making it suitable for all types of users.

Needless to say, you must have Adobe Air installed in order to get this tool up and running. Although it hasn't been updated for a long time, our tests have shown that it works smoothly with the latest version of Adobe Air. Setting it up takes minimal time and effort, since there are no special options involved.

It brings up to the screen a small panel with a simple design and layout, where all you have to do is enter the name of the topic and click the button to obtain information. Pressing the Enter key doesn't work for this task.

Finding the Wikipedia articles takes little time. Worth mentioning is that, in case of disambiguation, the app automatically loads the first article it finds. It's possible to open links and use the Wikipedia search function without leaving the program's interface.

However, there are no buttons integrated for navigating webpages and the hotkeys don't work for this either. In order to perform a new search from the first pane, it's necessary to exit and restart Wikipedia Look-Up.

The program worked smoothly in our tests, without triggering Adobe Air to hang, crash or indicate errors. Unsurprisingly, it left a small footprint on system resources, thanks to the fact that it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to function normally.

Although it doesn't have a particularly rich set of options and configuration properties, Wikipedia Look-Up offers a simple solution for rapidly finding Wikipedia articles based on the topic you specify.