Wiki Spy

(neal.fun)

76 points | by irs 3 days ago ago

11 comments

  • mxmilkiib 3 days ago

    what a curious way to explore media! very artsy

    I liked that navigating through spaces of images of items, none of which I quite knew the name, purpose, cultural references regarding or social significances of -thing

    what an ocean of oceans of oceans this world has been and is

    endless fun, a lovely bit of play, and the sound; satisfies! ty

  • amadeuspagel 2 days ago

    This scratches the same itch as same.energy and pinterest, but looks better, with everything cut out, with unique shapes. Truly, every page is its own image.

    I love wikipedia, but I don't see why this idea should be limited to it. Why it shouldn't scrap the entire web for images and descriptions, like same.energy?

    I'd also prefer it if the description showed next to the pointer, rather then at the bottom right corner.

  • hitekker 3 days ago

    An adorable widget.

    I believe it’s inspired by the “I Spy” books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy_(book_series)

  • SeriousM 3 days ago

    It reminds me on the wiki game "get to famous person X in the fewest clicks, starting at start page". Just a bit harder.

  • kylehotchkiss 3 days ago

    Holy bin packing how did you do that

  • serf 2 days ago

    it took 5 refreshes to get 'Erect penis in yellow condom' from the 'Condom' wiki entry, which was just a (explicit) cropped picture of a dick in a condom on the random front page.

    nothing a bit of regex cant fix.. hell add an nsfw version toggle that only looks up those kind of entries while you're at it.

    cool toy though. reminds me of old microsoft edutainment stuff... well aside from the dick.

    • halJordan 21 hours ago

      I don't think an erect penis should be a problem. This sort of "i literally cannot even look at it (despite being the only one here who did search for it)" refusal is insane to me

  • hbcdbff 2 days ago

    This is really cool and reminds me of a visual dictionary

    In fact, I bet you could make a pretty good visual dictionary for language learners quite easily from this

  • JimsonYang 3 days ago

    Such a clever twist on the classic wikipedia racing.

    Cant wait to play against friends

  • LearnYouALisp 2 days ago

    Ok, but on whose bandwidth?

  • ProllyInfamous 2 days ago