Is Wikipedia Add A Fact safe?
Wikipedia Add A Fact sends selected page text, page context, and a hashed user ID to Toolforge when users verify a fact.
When you select text on a page and use the verification flow, the extension sends that selection plus page title, description, and date context to the Add A Fact API. It also includes a daily SHA-512 hash of the extension's locally stored user ID in an X-User-Id header, with an optional user secret if configured.
Who publishes itWikimedia Foundation - no other listings under this identity
Wikimedia Foundation - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.3.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on localhost:8000
http://localhost:8000/find_citation
Read and change your data on citation-needed-api.toolforge.org
https://citation-needed-api.toolforge.org/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Store data in your browser
storage
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Wikipedia Add A Fact contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- citation-needed-api.toolforge.org
Wikipedia Add A Fact sends data to citation-needed-api.toolforge.org. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.