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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction | WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
It's a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media app. "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. On a recent WikiTok browsing run, I ran across entries on topics like SX-Window(a GUI for the Sharp X68000 series of computers), Xantocillin("the first reported natural product found to contain the isocyanide functional group), Lorenzo Ghiberti(an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence), the William Wheeler House in Texas, and the city of Krautheim, Germany —none of which I knew existed before the session started.
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