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Unless someone starts paying people to read a system like this will probably be inevitable in our information saturated age were nobody has the time to read any
by casey2 2y ago
Unless someone starts paying people to read a system like this will probably be inevitable in our information saturated age were nobody has the time to read anymore. Pulling in decades or centuries worth of context and motivation for the passage you are reading is definitely a worthwhile goal.
I really like the layout of the reimagined wikipedia it has the feeling that there is an entire group of people and subjects the care about and rely on the central topic. It's the exact same feeling as studying at a good school. The narrative that this circle creates can be a powerful motivator for learning. With wikipedia and other wikis, most articles feel like your reading an expense report and 99% of links are equivalent to the "general topics" and seem to serve more as distractions from your topic rather than a circle around it.
- kubb 2y agoEver heard of executive summaries?
- TeMPOraL 2y agoPart of me wants to say, this is waste of space. The "Reimagined Wikipedia" is basically just taking all the links and rendering them as tiny thumbnails orbiting the article. This adds no new information, no new connections, to what was already present in the article. And yet, it somehow feels different. It's really as you say, "it has the feeling that there is an entire group of people and subjects the care about and rely on the central topic"; those thumbnails beckon, invite you to explore in a way that regular hyperlinks don't. (That, or maybe after years of getting stuck on Wikipedia, recursively reading linked pages for hours on end, I eventually grew desensitized to regular links.)