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[pavel_lishin]

Seems like it would be nice to cache some of these requests, instead of repeatedly hammering the Wikipedia API. And why is it grabbing images?

http://i.imgur.com/KSju9.png

(Incidentally, my test case for the screenshot did not lead to Philosophy!)

[seangransee → pavel_lishin]

totally agree. i hacked this together pretty quickly last night. definitely a lot of room for improvement. thanks for the feedback!

[bloaf → seangransee]

It looks like there is a bug where it doesn't fetch the correct page:

http://wikiloopr.com/anime

[seangransee → bloaf]

fixed

[tripzilch → seangransee]

sorry to say, but couldn't you have thought about that before posting it on HN? you're on the front page, if your site really runs without caching, you must be wasting an enormous amount of WP's resources.