{"id":256643,"date":"2018-04-19T12:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=256643"},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:15:36","slug":"wikipedia-adds-page-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/256643-wikipedia-adds-page-previews.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia adds page previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has added page previews for desktop users, which is one of the largest changes the website has made in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The page previews feature allows users to get a quick grasp of what\u2019s behind a link without committing to a click-through.<\/p>\n<p>Page previews solves the problem of readers needing to go back and forth between articles or opening multiple tabs to gain an understanding of a word or concept.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia said the goal of page previews is to decrease the cost of exploration for each blue link a reader comes across.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can now easily satisfy their curiosity or clarify a confusing or unknown topic without the burden of opening a new page and navigating back to the original.<\/p>\n<p>Users can now hover their cursor over hyperlinked text in a Wikipedia page to read the\u00a0first few sentences and see an image.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can then decide if you\u2019d like to click through to read even more,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/249221-free-access-to-wikipedia-will-end-in-2018.html\">Free mobile data access to Wikipedia will end in 2018<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating through Wikipedia articles on desktop just got a lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":256811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[50113,4696],"class_list":["post-256643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-page-previews","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256805,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256643\/revisions\/256805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}