In such a situation, hovering a mouse cursor over the link, and having some JavaScript fire off to fetch the two or three sentence abstract, which was then shown in a tooltip, could be ideal.
All the best, Nick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups
-Gurch
Very nice! It even does popups on your popups, which is kind of fancy ;-)
It looks to just be the first two sentences of the article.
Well I was looking for something that removes tables / disambiguation notices / etc at the start of articles - but the Navigation popups seems have this well and truly covered ;-)
All the best, Nick.