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24 alternatives to VideoWiki
Video version of Wikipedia
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. VideoWiki launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN, this is a tool I built for fun two years ago, which I now decided to release as open source. It's a Java program that takes a Wikipedia page as input creates a video narrating the content of the page using a combination of sources for images and videos, plus Amazon Polly for speech synthesis. At the time, I wrote a detailed explanation[1] of how the tool works, if you're interested. The project is not active or currently maintained - I'm just releasing it because a few people requested it to me, and so I thought I might as well post it here! EDIT: Forgot to specify: although, in…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wikividi▲8provides documentaries on an enormous amount of topics.
2019 · murdochbook.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all! I put together a website that summarizes youtube videos. Enter any YouTube URL, and it will give you an overall summary, individual chapter summaries, along with key video frames. Here are a few examples: https://www.videogist.co/videos/tips-for-technical-startup-f... https://www.videogist.co/videos/openai-devday-opening-keynot... https://www.videogist.co/videos/cbs-evening-news-full-episod... https://www.videogist.co/videos/the-best-easy-miso-salmon-re... I'd love to hear feedback - if it's useful (or…
2023 · videogist.co · its alternatives →
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Wikiwand▲169Streamline Wikipedia knowledge and answer your questions
2024 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →
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V for Wikipedia▲108A high-class encyclopedia and an interactive travel guide
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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V for Wiki 1.0▲134A beautifully designed Wikipedia app for iOS
2016 · ohiocollegefootball.com · its alternatives →
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Qikipedia▲107Instant Wikipedia summary cards on any web page
2018 · chromewebstore.google.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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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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VideoToWords▲80Extract and learn more from your favorite YouTube videos
2023 · videotowords.com · its alternatives →
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Qwiki▲119Find and Read Articles on Wikipedia from your Mac menu bar!
2016 · getqwiki.co · 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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2014 · blog.twg.ca · its alternatives →
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Hello HN Over the New Year's break, I created semanticvideosearch.com. This can search any video based on meaning and context. I would love to get your feedback on it. What should I change and what can be improved? The preprocessed videos can be search very quickly, while the youtube video links take some time (yt videos also have a upper duration limit due to compute issues). I intend to add search based on the frames of the video soon. I would love to know your thoughts on the demo and any suggestions for improvements. Thanks! PS: the inspiration to create this was to get the 2 mins of…
2023 · semanticvideosearch.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · document.ly · its alternatives →
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2015 · cosmiclattes.github.io · its alternatives →
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2012 · pmtarantino.github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · banksytheluckystiff.github.com · its alternatives →
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