Wikihack
A lightweight tool that aggregates Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News into a scrollable feed. It is a purely front-end static site supporting three sorting modes—Top, Random and Rising—and retaining back-links to the original discussion context.
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Wikihack is a project that scrapes all the Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News, re-ranks them, and turns them into a scrollable feed.
The entire Wikihack site is served entirely by the front end, with no backend logic at present.
Wikihack's motivation is that discussions about Wikipedia on HN are scattered across submissions and comments and hard to digest, and Wikihack tries to make this content easier to browse and interact with.
Wikihack offers three browsing modes: Top (most frequently linked articles), Random (weighted random), and Rising (focusing on the past 12 months).
Wikihack's Random mode is not a completely uniform distribution but leans slightly toward frequently linked articles.
Wikihack's Rising mode ranks by a time window of the past 12 months to capture Wikipedia entries rising in recent HN discussions.
Wikihack preserves context, so users can see where an article was submitted and in which comments it was mentioned.
The Wikihack post received 197 points and 56 comments on Hacker News (as of the time of scraping).
The author says that if user feedback is positive, he will continue to add features to Wikihack.
The advantages of this purely front-end static architecture are simple deployment, low cost, and fast loading; the disadvantages are that update frequency is constrained by the build process and that personalized real-time interaction is not possible.
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The advantages of this purely front-end static architecture are simple deployment, low cost, and fast loading; the disadvantages are that update frequency is constrained by the build process and that personalized real-time interaction is not possible.
50%UnverifiedThe entire Wikihack site is served entirely by the front end, with no backend logic at present.
50%UnverifiedWikihack's motivation is that discussions about Wikipedia on HN are scattered across submissions and comments and hard to digest, and Wikihack tries to make this content easier to browse and interact with.
50%UnverifiedWikihack offers three browsing modes: Top (most frequently linked articles), Random (weighted random), and Rising (focusing on the past 12 months).
50%UnverifiedWikihack's Random mode is not a completely uniform distribution but leans slightly toward frequently linked articles.
50%UnverifiedWikihack's Rising mode ranks by a time window of the past 12 months to capture Wikipedia entries rising in recent HN discussions.
50%UnverifiedWikihack preserves context, so users can see where an article was submitted and in which comments it was mentioned.
50%UnverifiedThe Wikihack post received 197 points and 56 comments on Hacker News (as of the time of scraping).
50%UnverifiedWikihack is a project that scrapes all the Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News, re-ranks them, and turns them into a scrollable feed.
50%UnverifiedThe author says that if user feedback is positive, he will continue to add features to Wikihack.
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