Everyday I read wikipedia and everyday, I learn something new. Fucking love this free resource
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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Saw this posted in a ADHD com a few days back. Every comment was just like "oh no...". I opened it and like 20 minutes later realized, oh no. I can and have spent many entire days just reading Wikipedia and following linked subjects. So much so I run out in areas. I can't handle a lot of visual and audio stimulation, short form content is such a nightmare for me, can't watch it. But give me pages of the most dense info and I'm hooked. I just need the option to download every paper referenced from every Wikipedia page I visit.
This is pretty awesome. I do see the need to be able to add categories of interest. Like follow history, the arts, etc. Cool regardless.
"I have had plenty of people message me and even make issues on my GitHub asking for some insane crazy WikiTok algorithm," Gemal told Ars. "And I had to put my foot down and say something along the lines that we're already ruled by ruthless, opaque algorithms in our everyday life; why can't we just have one little corner in the world without them?"
The developer seems staunchly anti-algorithm but I feel like some sort of filter system would work well. I know nothing about development but the same level of randomosity (it’s a word don’t look it up) but for specific topics would be amazing.
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Algorithms themselves are fine. It’s wikipedia. I’d actually use it if it brought me to interesting pages based on a recommender algorithm.
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I see the dev don't want recommendation algorithm. All good to avoid the recommendation bubble, but a category/tags might be nice instead of random everything.
Just found this article that for some reason has me dying of laughter: ICBM address
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As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.
This is awesome. :3
My God my general but shallow knowledge of many things will grow more powerful
I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.
Because Tiktok is so much better.
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If someone made this for TV Tropes, I would never get anything productive done again
Wikipedia already has a "random article" function. I guess the tiktok ui is nice for some folks.