Wiki for a better world:Redesigns
This page is for ways the wiki could be completely redesigned.
Wiki engine
make a new wiki engine
- use case
- ultra short "pages" that heavily link to each other
- the whole wiki as one gigantic directed graph (flow chart style)
- text node
- displayed as a rounded square
- zooming in increases width but left-right-clamped to screen
- if (width clamped) height = whatever needed for text. but also adjusted so the text doesnt suddenly shift vertically when you reach that zoom point
- else height = min(width, whatever needed for text) and put some fade-out and ellipsis if needed
- contains wikitext with expandables available
- can be titled or untitled
- can link to other nodes, even untitled ones
- displayed as a rounded square
- math node
- can contain numbers and units (unknown whether should be powered by gnu or frink)
- id, val, desc, note
- equations (val) create math-reference links
- decide: can make equations that reference datapoints with no id?
- internally it'd be stored as {001} or whatever number
- displayed as a colored circle
- then the nodes gotta set color background?
- renaming id's should automatically rename them in every equation
- except equations that contain twirly brackets around id's
- youre allowed to make equations with blank datapoints; it'll propagate the unknowns
- conformability errors and math errors will also propagate as unknowns
- connection type
- default
- tether (set length i guess)
- math reference (can't be specified manually)
- interface
- you don't specify the physical locations of any nodes. the program moves them around as you traverse the graph. hyperbolic space effect
- controls option 1
- left click to pan
- scroll wheel to zoom
- right click for node menu (edit, new linked node, delete) or general (new node, new connection)
- left click to select text
- create-a-table feature
- specify rows and cols
- auto-tethers some nodes together
- idk how it would work for adding more tho
- history
- keep diff history with username/ip, just like mediawiki.
- deleted nodes have to be restorable. implement the same way as mediawiki
- talk pages
- should each node have an associated talk page?
- or should there be separate talk nodes that are hidden by default but can be shown?