WikiWalk - random walks through wikipedia.org

gavinjoyce · 27-12-2005 05:59PM #1

I came up with an idea the other day for when you are bored or don't know what to do with your time. Wikipedia has a random page feature which returns a random topic. I have been using this to make some decisions for the day. For example, last weekend an art galley in New York came up, so I went to my local art gallery.

The page in question is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

I also created a website today. This will update once a day with a random page, you can subscribe to it with an RSS reader if you like:

http://wikiwalk.blogspot.com/

Will anyone else do the wikiwalk?

flogen · 27-12-2005 06:14PM

Nice idea. The whole thing of doing something related to the random page result is very Dice Man of you!

Seriously though, it's a nice blog idea, even as a way of broadening your knowledge base. It's like a modern Word of the day calender, where you pledge to read a new wiki page every day.

flogen · 29-12-2005 08:06PM

Can I suggest this, drop or tweak those google ad's, they're messing with the template and are making the site look ugly.

BuffyBot · 29-12-2005 08:35PM

The green (IMHO) isn't particularily easy on the eyes either!

gavinjoyce · 29-12-2005 10:00PM

Cheers, I have modified the template. Let me know if it is still not looking right.

WikiWalk - random walks through wikipedia.org

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