If, like me, your formative internet years took place in the mid-aughts, you’re probably familiar with a little website known as StumbleUpon. It was sort of an early predecessor to that hot new ...

New York-based web developer Isaac Gemal stumbled across the discussion the following evening. Within two hours, WikiTok was live. If you’re the type to instinctively pull up Wikipedia to fact-check ...

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On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs in a manner ...

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Doomscrolling, or mindlessly reading negative news online, is an unhealthy habit many unknowingly adopt. According to the Mayo Clinic, the practice is known to cause feelings of distress, such as ...

Like all encyclopedias, online or offline, Wikipedia is absolutely chock-full of information. So much so that it can feel overwhelming if you fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. However, what if there ...

I don't know, this seems like pretty small beer to me. I'm not necessarily knocking people who think it's a neat idea, I just find it a little bit sad that the media-consumption bar is already so low ...

When you open WikiTok, it looks like this. Along with the image from Wikipedia, the article name and summary are displayed. Scroll down to the next article. If you come across an article that ...

In These Times, you might be hungry for distractions – but not the kind that turn your brain to goo. Meet WikiTok, a website that lets you endlessly scroll through excerpts of Wikipedia entries and ...

“It’s a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media app. Although to ...