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24 alternatives to WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected
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…
WikiBinge is a tool that finds connections between two Wikipedia articles by deliberately taking longer, more obscure routes instead of the shortest path. Rather than connecting through major, well-known articles, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia▲1,176Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.
2018 · sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · its alternatives →
- 2MW
Find information, resources and relevant links for wikiloopr.com. This domain may be for sale.
2012 · wikiloopr.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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WikiCrawl▲91Wikipedia crawler that finds how any 2 articles are related
2022 · wikicrawl.xyz · its alternatives →
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Wikigraph▲14Hi! This is a visualization I've always wanted but never quite found. It's a navigable map of the Wikipedia link graph structure, with search and shortest-path finding. Offline, I parsed the May 2026 English Wikipedia full-text dump into a directed graph, used cuGraph on a GPU to run PageRank, Leiden clustering, and ForceAtlas2 for the layout. I did some post processing to get rid of lingering overlapping nodes and rendered a tiled map of raster base images (using Skia) and JSON metadata. Tiles are bundled into PMTiles. The frontend is Deck.gl. Everything is hosted on Cloudflare. Search and…
Jun 2026 · tobypenner.com · its alternatives →
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Wikiwand▲169Streamline Wikipedia knowledge and answer your questions
2024 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · static.wiki · its alternatives →
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- 10WWikiMaze▲82
2011 · wikimaze.me · its alternatives →
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Go from one page to another in the least number of steps
2022 · thewikigamedaily.com · its alternatives →
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Small experiment of visualization of wikipedia articles as a graph using d3.js.<p>Articles with more traffic are bigger. I computed the semantic similarity using LSI with python (gensim) You have to scroll down/right a bit!<p>http://similarityapi.appspot.com/graph/?title=blade%20runner<p>There is also a JSON api: http://similarityapi.appspot.com/api/v1/?limit=100&title=blade%20runner<p>All feedback is appreciated:<p>@lucamartinetti [email protected]
2012 · similarityapi.appspot.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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Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
2025 · detective.wiki · 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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Rabbit Hole▲72A Firefox extension to map your Wikipedia Journeys
2020 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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WikiWalker▲59Find the shortest path from one Wikipedia entry to another
2014 · cnara.in · 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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- 21RHRabbit Holes▲43
Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics! Enter a topic of your choice and dig into the rabbit hole. All content is from Wikipedia—related topics are generated with GPT based on the summary. Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move around, and "J" to open journey view!
2024 · rabbitholes.wiki · its alternatives →
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Wikispeedia▲73A game for Wikipedia - connect articles in the fewest clicks
2015 · cs.mcgill.ca · its alternatives →
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Side Portal▲63Browse Wikipedia spatially, with a contextual sidebar/graph
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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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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