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do you know what "wikifind" means?

when i boot up my computer it always asks "doe you want to allow wikifind ( i think it says continue or update) "...i don't know what this wikifind means..

can you help me??

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Yes, here is a description: WikiFind is a simple program written in C++, used for analysing database-dumps from a MediaWiki-site such as Wikipedia. The program looks for a user specified keyword and returns a text file with wiki-formatted links to each page containing the specified keyword (Regexes can be used). Thus the program can be used for looking for templates, bits of code, misspelled words and such, perhaps in order to get a list to use with a bot.

    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Micke/WikiFind

    You need to locate that little program and remove it. It may not be doing any harm, but it uses space and memory.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Never heard of it, but if you go to your add ons or updates you might find it in there..you should type that word in the search bar and find out what it is and if you don't want it disable it. You can do this in your program and go to control panel too.

  • Bob
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    To me it's another one of those pesky programs like Blekko that invades your computer and soaks up memory and space, so they can go to their promoters and brag about the number of people craving to use their services..

  • 9 years ago

    Find in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I think so... Not really sure.

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