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)