The Full Wiki takes your Wikipedia wanderings and extracts actual data from them—data you could cite in actual research, if you wanted to. The webapp pulls hard reference citations from Wikipedia sections you highlight, but also maps, tree-diagrams, and otherwise organizes the wiki-stuff you're peering through.

For the small list of articles that The Full Wiki has mined "in beta," the webapp can indeed pull source material from highlighted Wikipedia selections and quickly link you to them, along with formatting the citation for your bibliography. Our Aussie counterparts note, however, that it's not quite the best way to absorb material, and they're right about that—though formatting your own references does get tedious after a while.

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It's The Full Wiki's other resources, then, that make it worth checking out. Tree diagrams of the topic you're exploring, maps of where events in the article you're browsing happened, and more resources that you might want to peek into. Wikipedia remains a reference that should never be your primary resource, but The Full Wiki can make it easier to branch off from.

The Full Wiki [via Lifehacker AU]
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