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I think your extension could provide value if people could choose a field of interest. Like if I could stumble through articles about China or about animals or even about broad things like people or places, that would be neat.

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Maybe a Bayesian filter (or some analogous technique) that found "interesting" articles?

This didn't crossed my mind at all. I wonder if extension should add an upvote button to Wiki page and use that for interesting?

Ah yes, didn't see this comment before I wrote my last one. But exactly, that would certainly be interesting if you got enough users to make the results meaningful (or perhaps curated a large bunch yourself initially).

Another thing that might be handy for something like this long term is making sure I don't see the same page more than once. But that would be a lot more data for you to store.

I'd rather have it tailored to my personal taste instead of a community thing, myself.

Great idea. I will add broad categories selection.

That might be handy for people who want to study a certain subject one day. For example, if I could keep hitting a button to get random articles from a certain category, such as computer science or math.

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