Inspiration
We've always been told to never use Wikipedia by our teachers and peers, but what if Wikipedia actually was as bad as everyone makes it out to be? In our project, we escalate this idea with a fun and unique twist.
What it does
Wiiki takes an existing Wikipedia article and turns it into something completely different, adding more bits of misinformation and humor as you continue reading along.
How we built it
We used a mix of React, TailwindCSS, and DaisyUI for the front-end, and used Python and Flask for the back-end.
Challenges we ran into
We had a hard time debugging our code, as well as creating an optimal prompt to run through ChatGPT that would give us our desired results. The different data types on Wikipedia also posed a challenge as the output would often become unreadable. Most of us have never had a chance to work with React, so learning an entirely new framework within a short time is challenging. It's also difficult to make the website responsive to different window size.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're very satisfied with how much of our application we got to implement and have function correctly within our limited span of time. We also felt very rewarded being able to successfully use ChatGPT API to generate fun and entertaining results.
What's next for Wiiki
There's definitely a lot of bugs we can resolve with more time, as well as making the user experience better through creating algorithms that will run our program more efficiently and accurately. For the sake of time, our demo did not include images, tables, and other types of non-plaintext data. With time, this would be changed to optimize the level of misinformation output.
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