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24 alternatives to Terminal Based Wikipedia

wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia. - yashsinghcodes/wik

Terminal Based Wikipedia is a developer tool that brings Wikipedia functionality to the command line. Launched in March 2023, it allows users to search and read Wikipedia articles directly from their terminal without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Terminal Based Wikipedia launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Het beste casino zonder vergunning voor Nederlandse spelers kiezen? Ontdek waar je op moet letten en hoe je een betrouwbaar platform vindt dat aansluit bij jouw voorkeuren.

    2021 · static.wiki · its alternatives →

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    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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    A fully interactive, realtime and modern browser rendered to TTY

    2018 · brow.sh · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…

    2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →

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    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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    Command line tool to fetch summaries from MediaWiki wikis, like Wikipedia - walle/wiki

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

    2022 · bookstackapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Wikiwho is a tool that scans Wikipedia edits and extracts those coming from specific IP ranges associated to known organizations. I've made this as a for-fun side project two years ago. If you want to read more on how it works I've written a short blog article about it here: https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-ma... I had already posted it here at the time (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907200) but I've now decided to release the code openly, hence the repost. If you're insterested, you…

    2022 · wikiwho.ailef.tech · its alternatives →

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

    2012 · wikiloopr.com · its alternatives →

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    Cwiki▲130

    A Command line interface for searching Wikipedia!

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Evidence based journalism, from the founder of Wikipedia

    2017 · wt.social · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I saw a thread a while ago (linked in README) discussing how Wikipedia does a good job keeping track of the domains of websites like Sci-Hub or The Pirate Bay. Someone mentioned checking Wikipedia to find links to these sites, so I thought this would be a fun thing to automate! To try it out, install an extension or modify your hosts file, then type in the name of a website with the TLD `.idk`. For example: scihub.idk -> sci-hub.tw Cheers!

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wikipedia crawler that finds how any 2 articles are related

    2022 · wikicrawl.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Wikifox▲237

    Wikipedia reimagined - clean, simplified, powerful

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    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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    Smarter way to browse Wikipedia

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API. Contribute to goldsmith/Wikipedia development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Qikipedia▲107

    Instant Wikipedia summary cards on any web page

    2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    WikiWand is a slick new interface for Wikipedia

    2014 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →

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    In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    AI for the Command Line. Contribute to santinic/how2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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