Summary:

• Explore Wikipedia through the smallest possible snippets of articles.

Main goals:

• Wikipedia articles are intimidating. People do have the attention span clearly to read an article length of content, because they do this when they scroll X or Reddit or Threads, but they do not have necessarily have the attention span to tackle a whole article all at once, as it is laid out on Wikipedia, or they might misjudge how much time they have and think they will not be able to read it, when actually they could if it was broken up.
• X and Reddit and “feed based” networks skew male, maybe we could present these snippets in a different way
• Maybe we present snippets in an Instagram grid-format. Text conforms to grids and has playful colors and backgrounds. Images and videos fit naturally here.
• Users “Save” snippets to their profile, and their profile looks just like Instagram, but instead of their uploaded content, it’s just the content they liked, nothing more.
• This is “Instagram for Wikipedia”, without user generated content, just curation
• Curation is fun, parasocial, lightweight
• People *miss* Instagram classic. This is Instagram classic, not reels
• No “upload” button yet, just explore. People start with empty profiles.
• Maybe their profile could be stored as a List in the existing database?
• Discovery is just scrolling through an endless mix of recommended snippets (text, images, video from wiki), and your friends curated posts, similar to Instagram classic