Knowledge is power

[WhistleOfTroy]

Ever wanted to read 55 thousand words worth of random Wikipedia article first sentences? Good for you, cause I finished my novel!!! It consists of approximately 650 chapters of random Wikipedia article first sentences where the new sentence is explanation of previous sentence (or a random new sentence if it gets stuck). Being a test automation enthusiast, I did it with selenium, python and shell script (didn't know how to make python loop my test so just did it with shell script). This is the second thing I ever write with selenium! My code is here and the novel is in the readme of this repo.

And of course here is an example chapter:

Lois January Lois January (October 5, 1913 – August 7, 2006) was an American actress who performed small roles in several B-movies during the 1930s. The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties", commonly abbreviated as the "Thirties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. The Rusca is a right tributary of the river Bistra in Romania. Soaring Free (foaled January 28, 1999 in Ontario) is a retired Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. Competition arises whenever at least two parties strive for a goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game).

I vaguely remember that someone in the previous years of NaNoGenMo had same or similar idea, would love if someone could drop that novel below <3

[s-sandra]

This is great! It reminds me of NaNoGenMo/2018#71 that @enkiv2 did. He collected Wikipedia trivia facts into a poem in the style of William Carlos Williams.

[enkiv2]

It also reminds me of an even earlier thing I did for NaNoGenMo -- 'phrase chains' wherein sentences would be stuck together based on key words from each.

I like this output a lot :) It feels like talking to one of my friends with ADHD.

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:18 AM Aleksandra Shtabnaya < notifications@github.com> wrote:

This is great! It reminds me of NaNoGenMo/2018#71 https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/71 that @enkiv2 https://github.com/enkiv2 did. He collected Wikipedia trivia facts into a poem in the style of William Carlos Williams.

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