I had a similar prototype idea that I never built, but it was this:
* start a user off on a random wiki page. * Don't encourage them to start afresh .. they can instead click through to a different page from the current one. * Keep track of these traversals, and then allow the 'trail' to be shared with others.
It could be cool to see the wiki-trails people leave as they spend time soaking in the pages. Or compare trails of people from the same page.
You have some of it ready.. please steal this idea :)
I dig it, but the main content area is too narrow.
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Edit: My previous endorsement is now retracted, installing the Chrome extension changes the default new tab behavior. Hijacking default browser behavior is terrible. Bad form on the part of the author
Throw this in your favorites, and have fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Nice interface, but gosh that makes me feel dumb. So much I don't know.
Could be the basis for a nice party game, along the lines of Trivial Pursuit.
Is this somehow different from the random article link in Wikipedia?