Scrollsurf

Visit this app on my raspberry

Scrollsurf lets you scroll through wikipedia article abstracts, like/dislike them, and visit the full articles on wikipedia itself. The articles that it shows you are randomly selected from these datasets:

• The 50000 most vital articles

• The Unusual articles page

• Wikipedia Good articles

• Wikipedia Featured articles

• Wikipedia Featured pictures

• Wikimedia Featured pictures

Getting Started

npm install

Before you run the app for the first time, you have to download the datasets that you want using the provided package scripts. The downloads take a long time, but one dataset is enough to run the app:

npm run download-vital-50000
npm run download-unusual
npm run download-good-articles
npm run download-featured-articles
npm run download-featured-pictures
npm run download-commons-featured-pictures

Then, you can categorize the articles by running

npm run categorize

Currently, that's not very useful - it just builds a huge category tree that you can look at. After downloading at least one dataset, you can

npm run dev

and go to http://localhost:3000

Check out the Diary!

Next, I want to think about a way to make article selection less random by using your liked/disliked articles in some way.

Future inspiration for more datasets / categorization

These Main topic classifications are not what I have

Wikipedia:Contents

why not reddit

Wikipedia:Categorization