On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kai Kumpf wrote:
hi everybody has anyone of you heard of or played around with touchgraphs wikibrowser (http://www.touchgraph.com/TGWB_101_SS.html)? this is a great step forward to intuitive wiki navigation! i really wonder why this hasn't come up onto the agenda long ago. all it takes for the current version of tgwikibrowser is a plaintext list of immediate links from one page (or all the pages in sorted order). this is accomplished by most wiki implementations by giving the url http://wikiurl/mainpage?action=links&mimetype=text/plain or something similar. to start with, mediawiki doesn't seem to know such a feature. why?? if
That would be 380,000 http requests to generate the English navigation tree, and more than a million for a complet set. I think it would be easier to parse a database dump (download.wikimedia.org) and feed the data to touchgraphs in some way.
Does touchgraphs scale to 100,000s of pages? Maybe selecting some subset would be better (say, a major category and all the articles in that category and subcategories).
Alfio