Use the WikiTweaks to avoid distractions on the Wikipedia

Want to stay focused as reading about an topic on Wikipedia but your curiosity is piqued from the link in the text Check out this Chrome extension to stay with track.
Visiting Wikipedia to look up information with one topic generally mean reading on several others. The link within the text body is meant to be useful just can sometimes turn into an huge time sink.

Web comic xkcd illustrates these situation perfectly in The Problem on Wikipedia. Sometimes it has just too tempting to click those links to learn about something else.

If you want to stay focused as you're checking out a specific topic Lifehacker recommend using WikiTweaks for your Chrome browser. WikiTweaks adjust the formatting of each entry on Wikipedia and the add pop-up summaries of those tempting link keeping you on the right page.

To get started install an copy by WikiTweaks as your Google Chrome browser.

Head to a topic on Wikipedia. This example will work on panna cotta. As you can see there is lots by links within the text to tell you about other topic such as Italian simmering and even gelatin. Just mouse over among the link and the small summary will appears. This summary has been pulled from the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry for that topic.

Another difference you may notice are the formatting from the entires Wikipedia page. Now there are less space in the left and the right margin which makes more use of your screen real estates. Lastly if you click the WikiTweaks button you'll see a list of the recently viewed Wikipedia entrie.

This extension make Wikipedia more user-friendly by helping you find out what a linked word refers to without losing track of what you attended the site as in the first place.