Feature Request - Filters

[PrejudiceNeutrino]

Not sure how hard it would be to add, but it would be interesting to be able to have filters for the random pages. Even if they were just basic like: people, places, science, history, etc.

Here is a more flushed out list if someone wants to get comprehensive:

Content-Type Filters

• Featured Articles – Show only Wikipedia’s highest-quality articles.
• Good Articles – Display articles that meet Wikipedia’s "good" status.
• Stub Articles – Show short or incomplete articles for discovery.
• Disambiguation Pages – Filter out or include pages that clarify similar topics.

Category Filters

• Topic – Science, History, Geography, Art, Technology, Philosophy, etc.
• Time Period – Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Future (for speculative topics).
• Event Type – Wars, Inventions, Political Events, Natural Disasters.

Popularity Filters

• Most Viewed – Based on Wikipedia page views.
• Recently Trending – Articles getting a spike in traffic.
• Most Edited – Articles frequently updated.

Content Length Filters

• Short (< 500 words) – Quick reads.
• Medium (500 - 2000 words) – Standard articles.
• Long (> 2000 words) – In-depth articles.

Recency Filters

• Recently Created – New Wikipedia entries.
• Recently Edited – Articles updated in the last week/month.

Randomization & Discovery Filters

• Random but High-Quality – Featured or good articles at random.
• Obscure Articles – Low-viewed but interesting pages.
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia – Explore articles linked from a given page.

Language & Regional Filters

• Language – Filter by Wikipedia languages (English, Spanish, German, etc.).
• Region-Specific Articles – Filter by country or region (e.g., U.S., Europe, Asia).

[charlesanim]

On it

[Krator3]

I also want filters to appear. Good luck to the developer!

[eugabrielsilva]

I also want filters to appear. Good luck to the developer!

You can always open a PR and contribute with your ideas! 😄

[Krator3]

I also want filters to appear. Good luck to the developer!

You can always open a PR and contribute with your ideas! 😄

I would be happy to, but I can only program in Python and I don’t know any libraries for it.

[moocow1452]

If there is an easy content filter for 18+/NSFW articles within the api, that's probably something that you would want to add as well. Would be hard to use in a work environment or recommend for a child otherwise.

[dranorter]

Given how prominent the pictures are to this, I think filtering for hi res images would also be nice.

[IsaacGemal]

NSFW filtering is something I brought up with wikimedia because there isn't a clear way to do it via the API, I may have to just hack something in the frontend, but I'd rather not have to do that (compared to a real solution).

[Zxce3]

Hi, I hope this doesn't come across as promoting, but I have been working on a similar project using SvelteKit to implement content-based filtering. You can find a basic version in this repository:
https://github.com/Zxce3/wakawiki

It's still a work in progress and needs further improvement. If you're interested, you can check out the live version here:
https://wakawiki.netlify.app/

I'm more familiar with SvelteKit, so if anyone has suggestions or feedback, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, and sorry again if this feels like a plug!

[mxdpeep]

better build the block list dynamically when using the app (eg. by swipe left and select a tag to block)?