Wikitok arrives: What is this mixture of Wikipedia and Tiktok?

Do you like to learn new things and you can’t stop using the infinite scroll of applications such as Tiktok, Instagram or YouTube? An American developer has created Wikikika platform that is inspired by the famous digital encyclopedia and in the format of the Chinese videos application.

But the most curious fact is that Wikitok started from a challenge released on social networks and has been created in just fifteen days. Next, he knows the operation of the platform and history after this proposal that has conquered the public.

What is Wikitok and how is it used?

WikiTok.net It is an online site that shows input Wikipedia arranged under another. This way of visualizing the contents through a vertical displacement resembles that of the well -known Chinese social network that depends on the company ByteDance. Users can navigate the pages, acquire new knowledge and read items in a very dynamic way.

The interface It is simple. In the home screen (feed) different concepts are exhibited by which vertical displacement can be interacted. It is possible to see a brief description, accompanied by a photograph. If the reader wants to deepen beyond the previous view, he can click on “this” read more “and will display the full page Wikipedia with all the information available in that shared knowledge network. You can also save the entrance by adding a “like” or share it on other websites. Despite the name, clear reference to Tiktok, there are no videos, but only texts and images, at least, currently.

There is no algorithm In Wikitok that prioritizes some sections over others, which records data on users and shows them different content, as it occurs on other platforms. The selection is random. Although there are Internet users who have strongly asked the creator of the web, Isaac Malathat incorporates a formula to find articles adjusted to your interests, at the moment the programmer has no intention of implementing «Ruthless and opaque algorithms». “Why can’t we have a small corner of the world without them?” He told the Technica medium. «I have no big plans for a kind of crazy algorithm, hypercomputed and monetized by Tiktok. In any case, It is an antialgorithm project ».

Information can be read, for the moment, in 14 languages As English, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Swedish, Turk, Chinese or others. For now, it is free.

Wikitok can be consulted from the application -Avisable in stores such as Apple Store and Google Play- and from the websiteboth from mobiles, and from tablets and computers.

A race to time to develop wikitok in two weeks

It all started with a simple post in X, published on February 4. «Crazy project idea: all wikipedia on a movable page«, Wrote Tyler Angert Founder and CEO of Patina Systems, a software development company. Users of social networks echoed their proposal, which spread rapidly. Soon, I already had a name for your invention: Wikikik.

Isaac Gemal picked up the cable. In a few hours, he materialized: «The entire project consists of UHundreds of lines of codemostly written by Claude, ”he told Ars Technica regarding the Anthropic’s tool, OpenAi competition. The most curious can access the open source in Github. Has developed it under the umbrella Vercel.

In addition, it has emerged Another proposal in parallel, Wiktok.lovable.appthat programmer Alexandre Pesant had developed a few days before in a little less than an hour, according to his profile of the social network of Elon Musk. In this, the options to save, share or visualize are offered. Is Something more completesince an articles search engine, an edit button and several categories that group the contents, such as history, technology, literature or political appear. It is also possible to screen the results through dimensions such as “articles with a short description” or “articles written in American English.”