Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)

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> Xikipedia is loading... (3% of 40MB loaded)

I gave up after about a minute.

This is unfortunately loading very, very slowly for me.

I was genuinely excited to try this and it sounded in theory like a lot of fun! Unfortunately yeah too slow to load.

Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing it as people scroll.

Took several minutes to load for me, and when my download got to 100%, the browser (safari on ios) refreshed the page and started at 0% again.

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It's ironic that doomscrollable social media feeds are built for low attention spans, because this website is the opposite. Gave up after 20 seconds.

An issue I have with these apps that claim to be for doomscrolling is that you don't open apps like Instagram or Facebook to doomscroll, you open them to check messages or stories. The doomscrolling is an afterthought. These things assume you can realize you're doomscrolling and not only break out of it, but choose to hypnotize yourself in their app.

surprisingly... boring?

Please only continue if you are an adult? You realize Wikipedia has no age restrictions right...

Man wikipedia is full of trash

If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster

This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.

I am so lucky to be basically immune to short form video garbage like TikTok, but I am not immune to Wikipedia's allure.

I easily have over 100 tabs of wikipedia open at any one time, reading about the most random stuff ever. I'm the guy who will unironically look up the food I'm eating on wikipedia while I'm eating it.

No need to try to make it "doomscrollable" when it's already got me by the balls.

I wonder if this would be a "better" way to build this thing: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/duckdb-iceberg-browser-s3...

DuckDB loaded in the browser via WebAssembly and Parquet files in S3.

I like the concept, but I'm not going to be reading Simple English Wikipedia.

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It took forever to load

Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see what a smart algorithm could discover on my behalf on Wikipedia given enough time.

I think it would be nice if you could do a non simple English version but nevertheless happy with what you've put together, and I've added a shortcut to my phone. Please don't let the negativity stop you from continuing to work on it.

1. https://www.wikitok.io/

This would actually be really fun if built around social feature like curators who could quote-repost the posts, popular/trending sorting and a threaded comment system.

Reminds one of Sesame Street - let’s put educational content in this new hyponotic medium!

How does it actually work? Can you add an "about" page that goes into the algo? Or can you add more info on the readme on github? I'd love to learn more.

This is really cool. And in only 500 lines of code is really impressive. I would have thought this was much more.