About Tangent
Tangent turns Wikipedia into something you fall through. Pick a starting article and it follows the links outward — surfacing connected topics and showing, at every step, exactly how you got from one to the next.
It's a reading toy, not a destination: no feed to clear, no streak to keep. Wander until something catches, then tangent off it.
Where the writing comes from
Every article, summary, and image is drawn live from Wikipedia. Article text is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Tangent shows excerpts and reformats them for reading, and every card links back to its source article on Wikipedia, where you'll find the full text and the list of authors. Images come from Wikimedia Commons under their own individual licenses — open any image on Wikipedia for its specific terms.
Tangent is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia.
Your privacy
There are no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, and no advertising cookies. Tangent doesn't build a profile of you on a server — the interests that tune your feed and the trail you leave both live only in your browser's local storage, and you can wipe them anytime from the interests panel or by clearing the site's data.
To fetch articles, your searches and the topics you open are sent to Tangent's server (hosted on Cloudflare), which relays them to Wikipedia. Those requests aren't stored or tied to you, though standard network logs may be processed by the host to serve and protect the site.
The fine print
Tangent is free and provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind. Article content reflects Wikipedia at the moment you load it; its accuracy, completeness, and tone are Wikipedia's, not ours. Use it at your own discretion, and the project may change or go offline at any time.
Open source
Tangent is open source under the MIT license. Read the code, file an issue, or fork it on GitHub.