WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
  • dylanjustice@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    This should be gamified. Use an LLM to generate a mini-quiz on the topic to make sure I read it. Give me points for acquiring new useless knowledge, and let me compete with my friends and family.

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    22 hours ago

    Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?

    • Hachiman@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      21 hours ago

      I would disagree on the “slightly more informative” part. I have used it and in my opinion, it’s “highly informative and educational”.

  • portuga@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    I too find this such a nice refreshing take on wikipedia. It’s only been a few days, hope the developer improves it further. I realize some kind of recommendation algorithm opens a pandora’s box, but one can dream

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    292·
    2 days ago

    Would be cool if the official Wikipedia mobile app integrated this functionality! It does have a ‘random articles’ card, but it’s nothing like this.

    Not sure ‘addiction’ is being defeated here, though 😆 Like if I’m addicted to sausages, giving me bacon instead isn’t really solving the root of the issue. The issue being those sexy, sexy pigs.

    • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      The addiction isn’t being defeated, it’s just being redirected from something worthless to something useful. Well, at least less useless.

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    321·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • thevoidzero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    53·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • misterdoctor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      “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.