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.