Comments on: Pathway 0.6

By: Navigare in Wikipedia « Compos Mentis

Navigare in Wikipedia « Compos Mentis — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:22:30 +0000

[...] Per questo avviso gli utenti mac che esiste un programma, Pathway , che risolve il problema. [...]

By: Hanury.NET » Blog Archive » Pathway 0.6

Hanury.NET » Blog Archive » Pathway 0.6 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:59:52 +0000

[...] Pathway를 설치한 지는 오래 되었지만, 최근에 0.6으로 업그레이드 하였더니 이전에 부족해서 사용하지 않았던 것들이 모두 해결되어 있었다. [...]

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:32:21 +0000

Know any software to assist wikipedia content manageemnt? There are things for windows but not macintosh… for example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AWB – there are some javascript things but their a bit cumbersome….

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:40:22 +0000

tryingflow:
Well, Wikipedia’s layout is not consistent in the sense that it is regularly changed by temporary additions to the top of the page. The algorithm that finds the links in that page, isn’t influenced by most, but some combinations cause trouble. I’ve found it to be a very small percentage of the pages, though…Anyhow, I’ll take a look at it and see what I can improve.

Links to existing pages are automatically drawn as connections. However, some links are immediately redirected to other pages (misspellings, unified articles etc…), so you can’t determine from the link if the linked page is in your document. Detecting that is something the algorithm isn’t designed for. Making it do so would require Pathway to actually load every page that is linked, and see if it redirects to a known page. But then you’re just wasting bandwidth and time…

By: tryingflow

tryingflow — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:54:00 +0000

hmmm – I got a question:

the drawing of the nodes, I don’t see how it works.
- sometimes it picks up the links from one page to another, most of the time it doesn’t.
- if I later add a page it doesn’t add the links to already existing pages – isn’t it supposed to do right this?

I tried all the different settings in the preferences, but it doesn’t seem to work…

Oh – and yeah, this is an awesome app, it’s great help to sort of mindmap the first research on wikipedia…

cheers

By: alej744

alej744 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:48:19 +0000

Yay! You fixed the toolbar customization crashing problem! Hooray I love Pathway!

^_^

By: Zac White

Zac White — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:13:54 +0000

I too would like to say how cool this app is. I was going to write something similar, but didn’t get very far because I got distracted. One thing I would suggest, that I would have put in my version, is the ability to cache the pages. It would be awesome to be able to quickly go through and add a bunch of pages and then save that document to be viewed later when I was not online. It would be great for research purposes and would really make this app useful for me. Keep up the good work!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:13:25 +0000

Hi, first of all, I love this app, and i’ve been following it for a while and was really excited to see an update today.

I’d like to make a few suggestions, if you don’t mind

First: The search bar. When you click on the magnifying glass icon i think there should be an option to search the page titles you already have open (currently the only available options), an option to search within the currently selected page (some wikipedia pages are huge, and i might be looking for a reference to one specific thing) and lastly searching wikipedia itself (countless times i’ve typed something up there expecting it to search wikipedia for me only to realize it doesn’t do that)

Second: very similar to the first, a cmd+f search feature, similar to firefox and safari.

Third: a way to open new pages in the background, perhaps by clicking with the mousewheel like in firefox and safari. Often the way i browse wikipedia is to read an article and click many links as i read it and open them in background tabs to browse later. however in pathway links open in the foreground causing me to lose my place on the page i was reading.

Thank you for the great app. As far as i’m concerned if these suggestions are implemented you’d be ready for a 1.0 release.

Keep up the awesome work!

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:48:07 +0000

I was trying to open “MMR”.

I think that a suitable opening screen would be just the front of Wikipedia, or Citizendium (is it open yet?) or whatever the user has chosen as their top wiki link in prefs. You could explain in the prefs that changing that would change the opening page people would see.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:01:40 +0000

Charles:
I agree about clearing the search predicate when adding a page, so I’ll change that. And I’m working on a friendlier opening screen (when no page has been added yet)
Caching is something I’ve been wanting to do for some time but it isn’t that easy to implement, so I’m still thinking of the best way to do it.
I took away your crash report because it kinda screws up the layout of the comments. But I’ll look into it. Could you please tell me the page you were trying to load when that occured?

Geoff: The Alcatel-Lucent error is due to the fact that that page has a link to itself. I didn’t calculate the fact that some pages would have that (believe me, they’re very rare as it’s kind of redundant to link to the page you’re on). Anyway, I’ve added a simple (and missing) check so it won’t happen anymore. Look for it soon in 0.6.2.
I like the idea of directional connections. Also, I’ve been busy adding a “open but don’t select” feature, but there’s something that triggers the page to temporarily (0,3 sec) deselect itself which is very annoying.