During a recent Wikitok-Browsingrun I walked on entries on topics such as SX-Window (a GUI for the Sharp X68000 series Computers), Xantocillin (“The first reported natural product that the Isocyanide-functional group), Lorenzo Ghiberti (An de Italian Renaissance -image from Florence), the William Wheeler House in Texas and the city of Krautheim, Germany – that I didn't know it existed before the session started.
How Wikitok left
The original idea for Wikitok comes from developer Tyler Angert on Monday evening when he tweeted: “Insane Project Idea: All of Wikipedia on a single, scrollable page.” Bloomberg Beta VC James Cham replied: “Even better, an infinitely scrolling Wikipedia -page based on everything you are now interested in?” And Annert came up with “Wikitok” in a follow -up post.
Early the next morning, at 12:28 pm, tweet writer Grant Slatton Citote-Tweet de Wikitok discussion, and that is where the consort came in. “I saw it from [Slatton’s] Retweet quote, “he told Ars.” I immediately thought: “Wow I can build an MVP [minimum viable product] And this can start. “”
Gemal started his project at 12.30 pm, and with the help of AI coding tools such as Claude and Cursor from Anthropic, he finished a prototype at 2 o'clock in the morning and placed the results on X. List of the site with daily news items.
A screenshot of the Wikitok -Web -app that is executed in a desktop -web browser.
Credit: Benj Edwards
“The whole thing is just a few hundred lines of code, and Claude wrote the vast majority of it,” Gemal told Ars. “Ai helped me to send it really quickly and just take advantage of the first viral tweet in which he asked Wikipedia with scrolling.”
Gemal has posted the code for Wikitok on Github, so that everyone can adjust or contribute the project. The Web app is currently supporting 14 languages, article examples and sharing articles on both desktop and mobile browsers. New functions can arrive if contributors add them. It is based on a tech stack with react 18, Typescript, tailwind CSS and Vite.
And so far he gets stuck with his vision in a free way to enjoy Wikipedia without being followed and focused. “I have no grand plans for a kind of insane cultivated hyper-calculating Tiktok algorithm, “Gemal told us.” It is anti-algorithmic, if there is something.“
