Random Wikipedia Article

by SpencerF718
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Description

Category: Learning & Knowledge Management

The Random Wikipedia Article plugin fetches a random Wikipedia article and creates a neatly formatted note right inside your vault. It's designed to encourage curiosity, daily writing, and spontaneous learning by surfacing unexpected topics. You can set rules for what makes an article suitable, such as requiring a minimum number of headers or filtering out articles with certain headers. The plugin allows control over how many times it retries fetching, where new notes are saved, and whether they open automatically.

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Latest Version

a year ago

Changelog

Updated UI elements to be sentence case.

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Obsidian Random Wikipedia Plugin

A plugin for Obsidian that fetches a random Wikipedia article and creates a new, well-formatted note in your vault.

The purpose of this plugin is to encourage daily note-taking and learning.

To generate a random article, click on the dice ribbon on the top left in Obsidian.

Features

  • Random Article Fetching
  • Header parsing
  • Configurable Article Selection
    • Minimum Headers: You can change the minimum number of headers an article must have to be considered "suitable".
    • Maximum Retries: You can set how many times the plugin will attempt to find a suitable article.
    • Disallowed Headers: You can provide a list of headers that will be excluded from the generated note
  • Configurable Save Location
  • Automatic Note Opening

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