This short Applescript prompts you for a Wikipedia topic and opens the resulting page in Safari. There is a nice Wikipedia Dashboard widget, but sometimes you might want full browser access. You can save the script in the Script Menu (~/Library/Scripts/), so it's accessible no matter what application you're in. Wikipedia is smart enough to convert spaces to underscores in the URL, so it's no problem if your topic has spaces in it.-- Wiki-Lookup-- Quickly look up an item in Wikipediaon run set Entry to display dialog "Lookup a Wikipedia entry:" default answer "" set textEntry to text returned of Entry set theURL to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" & textEntry tell application "Safari" activate make new document with properties {URL:theURL} end tellend runkirkmc adds: If you don't see the AppleScript menu in your menu bar, open AppleScript Utility (located in /Applications/AppleScript), and check Show Script Menu in menu bar. If you use a differ...

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