Wikipedia Viewer

Research simplified.

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Project Description:

Wikipedia Viewer provides a simple interface to search for terms and get back wikipedia articles through the use of the MediaWiki API.

There is also a random post button to randomly pull up a post on Wikipedia for users to view.

Project Requirements:

The buttons and text box had to be styled.

There was to be use of vanilla JS for content generation and using JS to change element styles.

As a challenge, I set out to complete the basic functionality within 3 hours.

Learning Points:

Given that it had been a while since I used Javascript, this project proved to be more of a challenge than initially anticipated, but also proved to be rewarding.

Since the documentation for the MediaWiki API was lacking, I had to figure it out via the examples provided.