I always just new tab -> type. Navigating to wikipedia first is a drag.

I suggest that you change your default search engine to use Wikipedia.

Ooh, I like this idea. Do you do this? How's your experience so far?

No, I’ve turned off the search functionality of the address bar. Whan I want to search, I use a bookmark to go to a search site, and use that.

Multiple reasons:

1. I don't necessarily know I'm looking for a wikipedia page. For example it turns out there's a Bogart-Bacall syndrome -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart%E2%80%93Bacall_syndrome -- that would actually be a false positive, but it's definitely not the first time I've found there are interesting wikipedia pages related to the thing I'm searching for.

2. In general, wikipedia's search is worse than google's -- meaning that if I don't know the exact name of the relevant topic, a google search for <topic> "wikipedia" is more likely to hit the right page than a search in wikipedia itself.

3. Opening wikipedia first is more work than typing bogart bacall wikipedia in by browser's search bar.