Taking a stroll through the web of human knowledge
Wikipedia is perhaps the most successful collaborative project on the Internet. Millions of contributors, millions of articles, covering almost everything. In this web of human knowledge, where should we start?
Somewhere, anywhere. And from there, we wander.
This project takes a stroll through Wikipedia — one page a day, every day. There are two versions: a physical ephemeride in 2018, and an autonomous X bot in 2025.
The original version ran for a full year. Each day, a script followed a random link from the previous article and found an illustration via Google Image Search. My sister Julie Colas turned the 365 entries into a physical tear-off ephemeride.
Physical ephemeride printed and edited by Julie Colas.
Seven years later, the walk resumed, this time fully autonomously. An LLM picks which link to follow, writes a short thread about what it finds, and generates an original illustration in a consistent risograph-inspired style. The bot posts daily on X at @wiki_voyager. It drifts from page to page following its own curiosity.
Here are the 365 pages of the original ephemeride starting from a random Wikipedia page. ok
