Show HN: WikiScroll (TikTok-Style Wikipedia)

I was originally inspired to make this by a tweet (https://x.com/tylerangert/status/1886560290864533983). Since then a few others have made variations of this app, including here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723

My version has a new feature which I was curious to see would lead to more interesting browsing: category scroll. Swipe left (mobile) or click the right arrow (desktop) to scroll related articles to the current one.

I also aimed to see if AI-assisted coding would make it easier to write a functional app without the use of frameworks, so this is a pure javascript static site. If people like this format, I'm hoping to implement some account/recommendation features to load articles based on what your browsing habits suggest you find interesting

Github link: https://github.com/Sami1309/TikiWiki

That's a good idea! An offline would be as easy as just making a parallel mediawiki API that serves from a local server. I will check out implementations.

Server fees aren't an issue with this deployment as it's just a small static app, though if this were to be big it would be a load on the mediawiki API, so if there's more interest than this as a hobbyist side project I should serve some of my own and cache (as I'm loading a lot of images in parallel)

I looked up your pingtype project, it looks like it's for translating English Chinese. Would that be for translating articles? For that I imagine I should add the feature for viewing Wikipedia in different languages.

do you have something to show?