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This is an open source tool designed for journalists to analyze and track Wikipedia edits. Launched in 2014, it allows users to examine edit histories and identify patterns in Wikipedia contributions. The tool is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We built an open source tool for journalists to inspect Wikipedia edits launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    A publication dedicated to full transparency in fact-checking. Every source document is available with annotations to guide the reader, and every fact-checking conversation is out in the open.

    2019 · sourcedfact.com · its alternatives →

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    Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.

    Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →

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    Evidence based journalism, from the founder of Wikipedia

    2017 · wt.social · 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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    Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.

    Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · its alternatives →

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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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    I built this several months ago as I was interested to see how the titles of posts evolve/change on HN. It turns out lots of titles are edited every day (in both subjectively and objectively good and bad ways!) and I've found it interesting to see how titles have evolved. The whole thing is automated and is built around a Ruby script that pulls down the titles on the front page at a frequent interval. Any titles for specific story IDs that change get tracked and rendered out to a static HTML page hosted on Netlify. It runs by itself without incident so far. This has been on Show HN…

    2019 · hackernewstitles.netlify.com · 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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    Find information, resources and relevant links for wikiloopr.com. This domain may be for sale.

    2012 · wikiloopr.com · its alternatives →

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    I was inspired by Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes viewer and created this small web app to browse Wikipedia in the same way. Clicking on a link opens the content in a new pane to the right. And you can resize panes. It's really nice for following rabbit holes or checking out lists from articles. Let me know what you think! Code here: https://github.com/steezeburger/wikipedia-browser

    2024 · steezeburger.com · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello Hacker News community, I've been developing a simple Chrome extension designed to assist journalists and researchers or learners in their YouTube investigations. You can swiftly identify specific segments within a video using semantic searches, powered by the OpenAI API. This transforms hours of potential scrubbing into moments of precision seeking. Whether you're sifting through extensive interviews, press conferences, and event footage on YouTube, or you require a quote from a video source, This extension is a handy tool. It also aids in quickly fact-checking statements made in…

    2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · 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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    The Reader Wiki, Reader View of Wikipedia

    2018 · thereaderwiki.com · its alternatives →

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    Streamline Wikipedia knowledge and answer your questions

    2024 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →

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    2011 · hacksandthoughts.posterous.com · its alternatives →

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    Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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