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Waterluvian

This already exists on Reddit as a bot that says “the best I did was reducing this article by 87%, here it is…”

I imagine you just need to wrap that in a browser plug-in. Or maybe already exists.

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This is done by autotldr[1] which is powered by smmry[2]. Smmry is pretty neat actually !

[1] http://autotldr.io/

[2] https://smmry.com/

Sadly it seems to fail bad on things that aren't new articles.

Try for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming/ as an input to smmry - you don't get the idea

I mean, it works ok. I think the issue here is structured documents like that wikipedia article. If you used smmry on each section, leaving the headers and structure alone, you'd probably get a far more 'coherent' result, and it's not surprising that the tool is built for "single block" content.

It would probably not be very hard to build a mediawiki smmrly extension that does just that.

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