Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Random Wikipedia Article by Category lets users browse Wikipedia articles by category rather than searching randomly. Launched in January 2022, the tool is designed for people who want to explore and learn about… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Random Wikipedia Article by Category launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Random Wikipedia browser extension▲15

   2019 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia▲979

   A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia. Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a redesigned look, new features and customization.

   2021 · modernwiki.app · its alternatives →

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   WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected▲246

   Connect two articles on Wikipedia, but do it the long way. I've always been a fan of the theory of six degree of separation, but it's an overused concept when exploring the Wiki-graph. Instead of showing the shortest path, which in my opinion is "boring" and ends up connecting super-important central articles, I came up with my own method: WikiBinge selects the smaller, less represented articles on Wikipedia. In a WikiBinge path, the underdogs are the kings! How does it work? It's pretty straightforward! Compute PageRank on the Wiki-graph and assign as weight of each edge the PageRank value…

   2023 · wikibinge.com · its alternatives →

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   Six Degrees of Wikipedia▲1,176

   Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.

   2018 · sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News▲140

   Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.

   Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →

6. 6WA
   Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed▲441

   Wikipedia you can doomscroll

   Feb 2026 · xikipedia.org · its alternatives →

7. 7TA
   Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline▲128

   2022 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →

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   Wikiwand▲169

   Streamline Wikipedia knowledge and answer your questions

   2024 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →

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   WikiWhat▲86

   Guess censored Wikipedia articles by the first paragraph.

   2021 · wikiwhat.simonrahm.pro · its alternatives →

10. 10WB
    We built an open source tool for journalists to inspect Wikipedia edits▲131

    2014 · blog.twg.ca · its alternatives →

11. 11AG
    AI generated puzzles from Wikipedia articles▲94

    A daily visual guessing game drawn from this day in Wikipedia history.

    2022 · doodleai.darraghoriordan.com · its alternatives →

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    NearbyWiki.org▲80

    Maps & Wikipedia combined, a new way to discover the world

    2022 · en.nearbywiki.org · its alternatives →

13. 13MW
    Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop▲295

    Find information, resources and relevant links for wikiloopr.com. This domain may be for sale.

    2012 · wikiloopr.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page▲388

    Generates a quiz for a Wikipedia page using parts of speech and text chunking. - alexgreene/WikiQuiz

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15IS
    Infinite Scroll Wikipedia▲13

    2022 · retrohacker.github.io · its alternatives →

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    WikTok – A Recommendation UI for Wikipedia▲73

    Hi HN, WikTok is a UI for Wikipedia that lets you quickly swipe (or use your arrow keys) to navigate between random and recommended articles (based on the previous articles you interacted most with). It's just a fun project I hacked together this weekend, so may be a little rough around the edges, but I'd love to get your thoughts. Let me know if you have any suggestions (or find any interesting articles!) Cheers,

    2023 · wiktok.org · its alternatives →

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    An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures▲178

    Wiki Journey tracks your daily Wikipedia rabbit holes in a tree format. Available on Firefox and Chrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiki-journey/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wiki-journey/lehenb... It's open source, feel free to contribute! https://github.com/demegire/wiki-journey

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

18. 18BS
    Browse, submit and rate interesting Wikipedia articles▲10

    I saw that a lot of interesting Wikipedia articles regularly crop up on HN. So, just made a quick hack which lets you browse such interesting articles in a Stumbleupon fashion. This may be seen as a replacement of Wikipedia's own random article function which usually outputs stubs or other non-interesting links. I have seeded the existing database with 100 odd links, please feel free to submit new ones (only accepts Wikipedia links) or vote on existing ones. Here is the link: http://wingify.com/arbid/ Even though this is super-simple at the moment, feedback and suggestions are welcome! PS:…

    2010 · wingify.com · its alternatives →

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    Wikiyarn▲71

    Smarter way to browse Wikipedia

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20UW
    Unusual Wikipedia▲41

    Apr 2026 · unusualwiki.nk412.com · its alternatives →

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    A Billboard-like chart for Wikipedia articles▲28

    The most-visited English Wikipedia articles, updated daily.

    2015 · top.hatnote.com · its alternatives →

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    NewsBot▲189

    The fastest way to find related articles

    2015 · pedicuresalonaangenaam.nl · its alternatives →

23. 23FA
    Filter and read Hacker News by category▲78

    2015 · blog.monkeylearn.com · its alternatives →

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    Wikijumps▲69

    Browse Wikipedia in 3D by common connections

    2022 · wikijumps.com · its alternatives →

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