Wednesday, August 30, 2023

See Random Wikipedia Articles

https://wetzel.dev/tools/wikipedia.html

I made this page that shows random pages from Wikipedia.  You may know Wikipedia has a random article link already, which I've always liked.  But my version has two advantages:

  1. It shows quick summaries of articles and an image for each article so you can quickly skim through them.
  2. It allows you to set a popularity filter.  This uses the number of inbound links to that page as a proxy for how popular it is, so you can filter out huge pool of random-town-in-Wales articles.

The second point is the real reason I made it.  The actual random article link just gives so much uninteresting stubs.  I feel like using number of inbound links works well for only seeing somewhat meaningful articles.

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