i agree that wikipedia could use a visualization aid, although i
doubt opinions will be the same on what form this should take before
it's been seen.
i am working on a hypermenu, but i'm also taking the demo first, ask
questions later approach. why whine if you're already certain what
you're doing is going to be useful? just mirror wikipedia and get
hacking.
if i were going to whine, i'd whine about RAMBOT and Geo RSS. :)
Is Rambot's code under an open license?
What are the plans for wikipedia to publish geo rss for pages that
have Geography edits with Latitude and Longitude coordinates?
Tony
hi
here is an extract from a short talk i had on irc lately:
kakau does anyone present remember this posting
concerning a
wikipedia visual navigator? my very humble suggestion (about 2
mths
ago) was then bluntly rejected for no clearcut reasons or let's put
it
the other way: did anyone of you once come across
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/ or touchgraphs wikibrowser
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGWB_101_SS.html ???
hashar I did I dont think we can use that on
wikipedia
servers, it
will generate too many queries for the DB servers
kakau and exactly *this* is *not* true. all you'd need to make
that
work would be a wiki "action" that only listed either the
hyperlinks or
the categories or both of one article at a time... look at
tgwikibrowser. it's fairly straigthforward. while you are in
"visual"
mode, the load would be even less than for a full text query
result
hashar that s still one more query made
additional queries to
build
the tree
kakau you won't have one person do both at
the same time:
either
people navigate through "bubbles" or through text. this argument is
nil... 8) some people, just to insist a bit more, do in fact like
http://www.kartoo.com/ which is not so far from my suggestion,
either i
just cannot imagine that the outside world is really busy and keen
on
visual navigation just for laughs i'd rather think that the idea
holds
some "extra value"... for the "customer"
as an aside: i think i posted an idea about a "semantic wikipedia"
over
one year ago. the idea, sadly enough, was turned down too. now we
see
categorization in full bloom. whom exactly should i address to
make my
visual navigation proposal be heard?
8)