Show IH: WikiStroll - random Wikipedia articles by category

Hi IH,

I built this mini-project to scratch my own itch. I love wikiroulette[0] but found that it almost always returned articles that were too short/specific. This is not surprising as more than ~78% of the articles on wikipedia are short articles that have less than 10K words.

I am mostly interested in history and could not find a convenient way to get quality articles that are history related and decided to build wikistroll. The articles are based on wikipedia's Level 5 Vital article list[0] and currently contains around 45K articles. Hope you find it useful as well. Any suggestions/feedback welcome.

[0] - http://wikiroulette.co/
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5

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Hi IH,

I built this mini-project to scratch my own itch. I love wikiroulette[0] but found that it almost always returned articles that were too short/specific. This is not surprising as more than ~78% of the articles on wikipedia are short articles that have less than 10K words.

I am mostly interested in history and could not find a convenient way to get quality articles that are history related and decided to build wikistroll. The articles are based on wikipedia's Level 5 Vital article list[0] and currently contains around 45K articles. Hope you find it useful as well. Any suggestions/feedback welcome.

[0] - http://wikiroulette.co/
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5

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