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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#131

Post by knorker » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

I assumed that obviously this is very clever performance art to show how even the healthiest food can be turned into brainrotting sludge.

But then I look at the comments, and it really looks like some people want this.

Now I'm depressed.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#132

Post by zxcvasd » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

hggh wrote: post #68

> you will likely see NSFW content. Please only continue if you're an adult. Should be: Please only continue if you're not at work.

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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#133

Post by rebane2001 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC

sebastiennight wrote: post #125

Gander5739 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's opensource insofar that the javascript is not minified or obfuscated. You can see it at https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia too.

I want to try reimplementing it for Wikipedia in another language, would you mind sharing how you went from the 400MB Wikipedia export to the .1x (40MB) file that is downloaded here?

Yeah I plan on putting the code for that on GitHub soon too.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#134

Post by jackinthehat » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

so me some days. I do love a little perusal in the backend, adding missing commas and the odd correction

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#135

Post by extraduder_ire » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

Is there a technical reason that you can't click on the filled heart icon again to undo your like?

Is it just not implemented, or would it be too much effort to undo the effect on your weights from liking the article?

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#136

Post by aizk » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

Wikitok lives again! :)

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#137

Post by aizk » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

blinding-streak wrote: post #110

abhinai wrote: post #18

This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.

Yeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see: https://www.wikitok.io/

Thanks! That's me :)

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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Post by aizk » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

renegat0x0 wrote: post #99

- https://wikispeedruns.com/ - https://sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ - https://www.wikitok.io/

Thanks for the shoutout :)

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#139

Post by aizk » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

noonething wrote: post #44

glenstein wrote: post #30

Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see what a smart algorithm could discover on my behalf on Wikipedia given enough time. I think it would be nice if you could do a non simple English version but nevertheless happy with what you've put together, and I've added a shortcut to my pho…

First thing I see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophageal_cancer Thank you.

Dev here: Unfortunately, that was one thing I never managed to figure out with WikiTok - content filtering. Wikipedia has no categorization of whether or not their articles are NSFW (imagine how much debate that would require for millions of different articles), nor something I could use in their API. That said, anecdotally, I have found the percentage of rather NSFW articles to be quite low all things considered so it's been mostly fine. I think the best option would be to have a quick disclaimer before your scroll, but nobody has seriously asked me for that.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

#140

Post by themikesanto » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

glenstein wrote: post #30

Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see what a smart algorithm could discover on my behalf on Wikipedia given enough time. I think it would be nice if you could do a non simple English version but nevertheless happy with what you've put together, and I've added a shortcut to my pho…

Clicked into an article about nuclear weapons and was thinking "wow, the quality of this article is horrible" before I realized it was Simple English Wikipedia. I didn't even know that was a thing.