Ever fell down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia? Ever wanted to find obscure/random/funny Wikipedia articles but didn't now how to look out for them? With my website you can find new wikipedia articles instantly with just the press of a button :)) Yes, I am aware that such a functionality already exists on the Wikipedia website but it is kinda annoying to handle. (This is just as a preparation for another project of mine)
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I am currently building a website that shows you random Wikipedia articles as a preparation for another project :)
Today, I spent like twenty minutes implementing a language system which allows the user to select their target content language.
It was kinda annoying because I chose to stick to html select and option elements. The problem is that the styling options for option elements are limited. Like really really insanely limited. So it looks kinda.. not good rn
That’s why I plan on switching to an alternative that does not rely on these HTML elements in the future
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I programmed a website that shows you random Wikipedia articles at the press of a button :))
Why did I make this? Wikipedia has a built in function to show you a random article, but to use it you will have to visit the corresponding link each time so there is no way to "spam" it.
Also I am currently working on another project I will need the Wikipedia API for so I used this as a quick introduction to the API for myself.
I kinda forgot how annoying CSS is to deal with but building a webpage again was kinda fun :)
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Today, I wanted to gain some familiarity with the Wikipedia API in preparation for another project I am working on.
So I programmed this little website that shows you a random Wikipedia article with the press of a button.
Today I wrote all the basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript code, added functionality to actually show you the article and pushed to GitHub. I then spend what feels like an eternity trying to make the website work for mobile users (was relatively easy tho once I figured out how lol)
The project is almost finished, I just need to implement some functionality to show articles in other languages :)
