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New “WikiTok” web app allows infinite TikTok-style scroll of Wikipedia
WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/new-wikitok-web-app-allows-infinite-tiktok-style-scroll-of-wikipedia/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.

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Feb 7, 2025 at 9:11pmArsBot 🤖
Show threadOz BayFeb 7, 2025
@arstechnica Why tik tok reference though? Wikiroll, Wiking, Wikiloop ... I can do this all day.
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 7, 2025

@arstechnica

I like this so much, I support adding a wiki account here. A volunteer that rando chooses a new Article every time period, or ask wikipedia to open a handful of accounts with a news bot, a history bot, a science bot.

Wiki posting all day long.

Love it. Love it a lot.

Wikiscrolling and #bloomscrolling #Mastodon is on side.

Show threadtbehrens✡️Feb 7, 2025

@arstechnica I just tested it and learned, that slaughterin cats and dogs and trading and eating their meat wasn‘t forbidden in the US until 2018. 😯🫢

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_Cat_Meat_Trade_Prohibition_Act_of_2018

Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2018 - Wikipedia

Show threadChristopher HotchkissFeb 7, 2025
@arstechnica I feel like an even more dangerous version of this would be using tvtropes.
Show threadRobinFeb 7, 2025
@arstechnica
Someone should do this for tvtropes and no one would get anything done ever again
Show threadMārtiņš BruņenieksFeb 8, 2025
@arstechnica Link to app: https://wikitok.vercel.app/
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