WikiWalkBack

Wikipedia search using Wikipedia API. React + Redux frontend work.

Purpose

See the connections between articles in Wikipedia in a non-intuitive way.

Example

https://mdfw.github.io/wikiwalkback

Install it yourself

git clone https://github.com/mdfw/wikiwalkback.git

$ cd wikiwalkback

npm install

npm start

Open your browser to: http://localhost:8080.

Possible future improvements:

• Popover on world cloud tags to give options to open the page on wikipedia or begin search with the topic of the word cloud tag (the current default).
• Multiple language support for supported Wikipedia languages

Technologies

Languages

• Front-end: Javascript (ES6)

Libraries

• React.js (BSD License)
• React-router.js (MIT License)
• redux.js (MIT License)
• react-wordcloud (MIT License)

Tools

• Webpack

API

• Wikipedia

Acknowledgements

• Uses Bottom by Arthur Shlain from the Noun Project under CC BY-SA 3.0
• Wikimedia puzzleglobe back by the Wikimedia Foundation under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-puzzleglobe-V2_back.png)

Screenshots

The Search page:

Search results top:

Search results bottom: