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This opens a new tab and searches the English Wikipedia for the selected text on the current page. If you’ve selected no text, it goes to the Wikipedia home page. Source: https://lmnt.me/blog/two-bookmarklets.html

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javascript:(function(){var selectedText=window.getSelection().toString().trim();var searchUrl=selectedText?'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search='+encodeURIComponent(selectedText):'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page';window.open(searchUrl,'_blank');})();

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