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