It's 2:00 AM. Who wants infinite scrolling wikipedia!!
February 9, 2025 2:41 PM Subscribe
WikiTok is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike TikTok.
It's a feed. It's not even a little bit algorithm-driven. It gives you Wikipedia articles. If you want to read them, you can click and it will take you there. If you don't, scroll on down. No autoplay. No sound.
All the scrolling you can eat with zero net grams of brain rot!
Ars Technica article presenting the concept to the world.
Tweet releasing WikiTok an hour and a half after Isaac Gemal went to work on it. He used AI tools to get the code written so quickly, and I for one think this is exactly the rare kind of use-case where AI is making the world a little nicer.
Works best on mobile!
It's a feed. It's not even a little bit algorithm-driven. It gives you Wikipedia articles. If you want to read them, you can click and it will take you there. If you don't, scroll on down. No autoplay. No sound.
All the scrolling you can eat with zero net grams of brain rot!
Ars Technica article presenting the concept to the world.
Tweet releasing WikiTok an hour and a half after Isaac Gemal went to work on it. He used AI tools to get the code written so quickly, and I for one think this is exactly the rare kind of use-case where AI is making the world a little nicer.
Works best on mobile!
My Wikipedia bookmark is set to its random page. Usually it brings up something like a minor league soccer team in Vitebsk. But once it brought up Natalie Schafer (an almost 7 million-to-1 shot!) , whereby I learned that she bequeathed more than 1 million dollars to the Lillian Booth Actors Home - and that the latter was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary short film.
So yeah, I'm all over this idea.
posted by Lemkin at 2:53 PM on February 9
So yeah, I'm all over this idea.
posted by Lemkin at 2:53 PM on February 9
God, if he'd make this into a phone app I might never go to reddit again.
posted by mittens at 3:10 PM on February 9
posted by mittens at 3:10 PM on February 9
> Ars Technica article presenting the concept to the world.
actually,
posted by alex_skazat at 3:18 PM on February 9
actually,
posted by alex_skazat at 3:18 PM on February 9
Is there any tea on this website?
posted by Reverend John at 4:08 PM on February 9
posted by Reverend John at 4:08 PM on February 9
« Older A glimpse into the psyche of a right-wing...
posted by Going To Maine at 2:50 PM on February 9