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That's pretty cool. I built a backend with titles list etc. It seems in vain now. Hehe :). Any suggestions to make stumbling Wikipedia more meaningful?

• lrm 14y ago
  I think your extension could provide value if people could choose a field of interest. Like if I could stumble through articles about China or about animals or even about broad things like people or places, that would be neat.
  • negamax 14y ago
    Great idea. I will add broad categories selection.
    • petercooper 14y ago
      That might be handy for people who want to study a certain subject one day. For example, if I could keep hitting a button to get random articles from a certain category, such as computer science or math.
  • Turing_Machine 14y ago
    Maybe a Bayesian filter (or some analogous technique) that found "interesting" articles?
    • negamax 14y ago
      This didn't crossed my mind at all. I wonder if extension should add an upvote button to Wiki page and use that for interesting?
      • petercooper 14y ago
        Ah yes, didn't see this comment before I wrote my last one. But exactly, that would certainly be interesting if you got enough users to make the results meaningful (or perhaps curated a large bunch yourself initially). Another thing that might be handy for something like this long term is making sure I don't see the same page more than once. But that would be a lot more data for you to store.
        • Turing_Machine 14y ago
          I'd rather have it tailored to my personal taste instead of a community thing, myself.
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• petercooper 14y ago
  Yes. Like StumbleUpon I'd rather "stumble" across pages that are actually interesting. When you use Wikipedia's own system you get some really inane pages with statistics about minor towns or the like.. but I'd rather hit a button and get something that's either curated and known to be good OR that other users of your extension have voted up in some way.