Browse Wikipedia With Pathway
If you’re geeky like me, then you probably browse Wikipedia for fun. I always find myself looking at one article, and just click on links to other Wikipedia pages. I just keep going deeper and deeper, until I forget what I was viewing in the first place. I always thought I was the only one that does that, until I stumbled upon Pathway.
Pathway is an application for viewing Wikipedia pages. The main focus of the application is the way it tracks your history. While it displays a list of the pages you visited, it also uses a page web. For example, lets say I’m on the Macintosh page and I click on a link to the Apple Lisa page (as shown in the screenshot above). Then I click on a link to Steve Jobs. Using the page web, I can click on Macintosh again, and go right back where I came from. From there I can click on a link about Graphical user interfaces and click on an article about GNOME.
The bubbles of the page web can be moved and the page web can be zoomed in an out of. One interesting feature I found, is that on large pages, the bubble will have small white bubbles around it, with relevant links. An example is shown below.
Pathway supports the English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish Wikipedia’s. The developer is currently getting help translating the program into other languages, which is when I suspect the other Wikipedia’s will be supported. You can grab Pathway here.
wow, nice find, so far Im loving this.
You browse Wikipedia for something to do? :S
Shot! This is soo cool.
watch out guys. Pathway is an addictive substance. Use sparingly. Dont become a junkie like me.
@Andre – yep, I have no social life whatsoever *bursts into tears*
@Yoha
I’m with you, man. Even before I got Pathway I was addicted to what I like to call “Wikistumbling.” You know it’s bad when you start at an entry for Batman and end up at the laws of thermodynamics.
If you like this app then you’ll probably like this:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/sixdeg/