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Random wiki pages are one of the things that give HN its pleasant Old Internet atmosphere to me. Sometimes I've thought about sampling over wikipedia uniformly
by comicjk 5y ago
Random wiki pages are one of the things that give HN its pleasant Old Internet atmosphere to me. Sometimes I've thought about sampling over wikipedia uniformly at random, submitting to HN, and observing the trends in what rises to the top.
- coldpie 5y agoHahaha. Have you ever clicked the "Random Article" button on Wikipedia? I learned the world has a _lot_ of tiny villages no one has ever heard of.
- bckr 5y agoWhat if there were a recommender system in the loop that looked at which articles tend to be voted up and then would be more likely to submit articles that it thought HN would find interesting — would a uniform distribution filtered by a "probability to be well-upvoted" be a good way to do this?
- lakkal 5y agoI used to do that a lot. Lots of small villages and soccer/football players...