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Wiki Explorer

Completely client-side, serverless web app for exploring Wikipedia with optional local caching

Search for a Wikipedia page and explore all linked Wikipedia pages with pie navigation (click, touch, drag, mousewheel). Click on any result to make it the new search target.

Results can be filtered by titles and/or categories, just start typing in the corresponding text input fields. Categories can also be filtered with a checkbox filter containing a list of all categories of all results. Missing pages (which are linked to on Wikipedia, but have not yet been created) are marked in red. An extract with image, button to open Wikipedia and categories/redirects (when enabled) is also available.

You can try it out at https://wiki-explorer.netlify.app/, where the master branch is always automatically deployed.

For additional details regarding usage, please check out the built-in help, accessible through the burger menu located in the upper right corner.

Important notice for Firefox Mobile users (Android/iOS)

To avoid display issues, please follow these steps in your Firefox mobile browser:

  1. Navigate to 'Settings'.
  2. Go to 'Customize'.
  3. Disable the 'Scroll to hide toolbar' option.

Why this is important:

  • Enabling 'Scroll to hide toolbar' causes the tool (address) bar to pop up unexpectedly.
  • It also includes the space occupied by the tool bar in screen height calculations, resulting in content overflow at the bottom of the page.

By disabling this setting, the toolbar always remains visible, which allows Wiki Explorer to scale correctly and function properly.

Please note that this is a browser-specific issue and cannot be remedied from Wiki Explorer's end.

Project setup

npm install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

npm run dev

Compiles and minifies for production

npm run build

Serve production build

npm run preview

Run linter

npm run lint

Run formatter

npm run format

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