We know more and more that social media can become a real curse. While they're super handy for keeping in touch, sharing updates, and sometimes gathering information (with a smart approach), they can also be extremely, let me emphasize, incredibly time-consuming. Who here has never lost hours scrolling from one post to the next, watching endless videos of cats, dancers, or an avalanche of cooking recipes that we'll never actually use? Thankfully, some clever folks came up with a pretty similar concept that would let us use our time in a (little bit) more productive way.
insane project idea: all of wikipedia on a single, scrollable page
— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) February 3, 2025
Two hobbies combined in one single place
Spending hours getting lost from page to page on Wikipedia is just fantastic. You learn so many things, about all sorts of different topics that you hadn't even heard of an hour before. But here's the thing, it does require starting from somewhere, often a topic that's a bit boring because you're lacking inspiration, and sometimes it takes several minutes before you stumble upon a really juicy page.
#WikiTok : la fusion de @Wikipedia et #TikTok…pour se cultiver en scrollant https://t.co/NpsaGNKPqE via @Creapills pic.twitter.com/NAfEOFRGEz
— Aurélie Coudouel (@AurelieCoudouel) March 20, 2025
Luckily, thanks to WikiTok, you no longer have to spend hours hunting for the most niche topics, because the site, available on the internet or through apps, directly offers you completely random wiki pages, without any algorithm or personalization. From Giuseppe Delfino (an Italian fencer) to the spider Muritaia, and including the Carolina Hurricanes (a hockey team) and the Archibald Prize (awarded to Australian journalists), you'll definitely find something to sink your teeth into.
Plenty of Versions
Originally imagined through a conversation among several developers on X (formerly Twitter. And just 2 short hours later, the first version of WikiTok was born. Today, the idea has been embraced by several people, and whether you're on a computer or a phone (Apple or Android), you’ll find a site to your liking.
I built WikiTok in 4 hours with Replit AI.
— Alex Prompter (@alex_prompter) February 9, 2025
I know zero lines of code.
Here it is: https://t.co/46KPT0970R
Even better, the concept is now expanding to movies, in partnership with IMDb, perfect for those Sunday indecisives who spend more time picking something to watch than actually watching it. But also for quotes, poems, or, even better, for useless yet fascinating anecdotes, with FactTok. The next time you've scrolled through Insta, you'll know just where to waste your time!