I've been waiting for someone to implement this well! I think in the future we might even have tiktok-style influencer videos generated from wikipedia content, who knows.
I've been swiping a lot for the last 10 minutes and I'm not sure how much it's learning. I have some feedback.
- I have never liked or clicked a biography but it keeps suggesting vast amounts of those
- It does not seem to update the score based on clicking vs liking vs doing both. I would assume clicking is a solid form of engagement that should be taken into consideration
- It would be interesting to see some stats. I have no idea how many articles i've scrolled through or the actual time spent on liked vs disliked article previews. If you can add such insight it would be interesting
- A negative feedback mechanism would be interesting as well. There is no way to signal whether I'm just neutral towards something (and swipe through) or actively negative about it (which is a form of engagement the doomscroll would actually use to show me such content once in a while)
- since this website has already shown me multiple pages about things I'm learning about thanks through it, it might benefit from a "share" button (another engagement signal) as HN folks are likely to want to share on HN things they've just learned
- Would you be willing to make the experiment open source?
It's opensource insofar that the javascript is not minified or obfuscated. You can see it at https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia too.