a gamification layer on top of Wikipedia
Finally shipping this app. I am doing this challenge where I code 42 apps (or webapps ) in 42 weeks. WEEK #7. It's tough, very little time for anything with this challenge.
I've been wanting to ship this app for a long time. I've always loved Wikipedia, like I would guess most of you. But I always found the UI was bad and it lacked software to track progress, learn faster and all the like.
SO, WHAT WOULD A CODER DO. I made the first version for some of these tools in a few days. I am worried it might flop, but then this one is for me.
Just wanted to share this, pretty sure most of you are nerds.
Be nice, see the potential in this. Hacker News is already there for the trashing and bashing.
The app:
https://playfulwiki.com
You can find me on twitter here
https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=occamly
And follow the challenge here
https://newp.substack.com
There's a potential gold mine of data on how people comprehend, if you can grab the summaries and run ML over them.
Down the track, there's a possibility to resell summaries and pass income onto their authors.
I've been playing around this for a bit now, and I like how it encourages me to actually learn when going on Wikipedia reading sprees.
I think this is a great start.
Could be really interesting as a more social experience.
I think there's also an opportunity here to turn Wikipedia into more learnable content -- i.e. progressive courses based on Wikipedia content.
Cool idea
This is cool. Seems like it could easily morph into a teaching tool for parents to use with their kids, or a fun trivia game to be played with strangers or people you know.
Ooh the summary feature is genius, i think this would actually be really great for online textbooks.
That being said, would I actually use this? Probably not.
I MIGHT use something like this if built on different open source content/textbooks... coding subjects might appeal to me.
Nicely done
Hey Victor! Props for doing this. Wikipedia is a fantastic resource, but it lacks a lot in accessibility. If this can help with that then fantastic!
What does it lack in accessibility the most?