Google should buy Wikipedia and be done with it. Or we could cut out Google altogether and just search Wikipedia because it is one of the few sites Google will show you.
Day 1: Google buys Wikipedia Day 100: Wikipedia is shut down
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Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#82I thought the scroll didn’t work at first, apparently only the bottom of the screen is scrollable. I see other comments talking about a voice, I don’t have it, just the music? Also the content is really irrelevant and uninteresting (I’m assuming it uses a random article? It should aim for the most popular instead), it really needs some curation. The subtitles are also hard to read, they should be displayed sentence b…
Graph structure of wiki could be exploited for user specific content.
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Allow TikTok to be run like Wikipedia... So that people with no interest or knowledge of a particular subject can go round deleting said content, or blocking every shared IP from uploading content while saying anyone can edit it.
That's a very wrong view of how Wikipedia works, and frankly vastly I prefer its limited but generalized gatekeeping than "everybody is allowed to lie and bullshit and as long as it makes engagement your feed is going to be filled with it" the TikTok way.
I have at least twenty years of experience of Wikipedia, and it is exactly how it works much of the time. I lost count of the occasions when people with no knowledge of a particular subject kept trying to delete articles on it. Then there were the continuously changing rules, jargon and oligarchical structures...
Some subject areas have much better coverage than others: linguistics is much better dealt with than sport for example.
Nowadays I rarely edit Wikipedia, because they block most shared IPs. I used a named account for at least ten years and it was counterproductive.
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#84Google should buy Wikipedia and be done with it. Or we could cut out Google altogether and just search Wikipedia because it is one of the few sites Google will show you.
Day 1: Google buys Wikipedia Day 100: Wikipedia is shut down
Google would probably asset strip it for all the info it could sell on or import into AI models.
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#85The idea is really interesting the implementation sucks.
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#86> fully generative UIs where the HTML/Canvas are generated just-in-time
Why? The UI is a template and the core structure never changes, in the context of TikTok’s feed, so what’s the benefit you are trying to reap by dynamically generating the UI?
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#87I've never used tiktok, if this is an accurate representation, it's jarring!
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a very wrong view of how Wikipedia works, and frankly vastly I prefer its limited but generalized gatekeeping than "everybody is allowed to lie and bullshit and as long as it makes engagement your feed is going to be filled with it" the TikTok way.
I have at least twenty years of experience of Wikipedia, and it is exactly how it works much of the time. I lost count of the occasions when people with no knowledge of a particular subject kept trying to delete articles on it. Then there were the continuously changing rules, jargon and oligarchical structures... Some subject areas have much better coverage than others: linguistics is much better dealt with than spor…
Would you be willing to give the name of the account?
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#89I thought the scroll didn’t work at first, apparently only the bottom of the screen is scrollable. I see other comments talking about a voice, I don’t have it, just the music? Also the content is really irrelevant and uninteresting (I’m assuming it uses a random article? It should aim for the most popular instead), it really needs some curation. The subtitles are also hard to read, they should be displayed sentence b…
thanks! i spent last weekend building out the engine to create content but agree UI needs more polish. this is all great feedback will try getting out v2 of quickquack rebranded to wikwok :)
Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
#90> fully generative UIs where the HTML/Canvas are generated just-in-time Why? The UI is a template and the core structure never changes, in the context of TikTok’s feed, so what’s the benefit you are trying to reap by dynamically generating the UI?
sorry not the UI but specifically the content. every new post on the feeds that are not "Following" are created in realtime. just a demo showing whats possible but I could just generate them before hand in bulk too.