AJAX version of Wikipedia with geo-browsing

[soeren.auer]

Hi all,

we thought it could be interesting to experiment with equipping
Wikipedia with some AJAX features. Result is a user interface for
Wikipedia, which is largely based on AJAX, thus enabling previews of
images or referenced articles without reloading the current Wikipedia
page. Its called Pediax and accessible at:

http://en.pediax.org

Pediax also allows geo-browsing, i.e. geo-referenced Wikipedia articles
(currently over 50,000) are displayed on a map. It shows the 20 most
popular places/articles in the currently selected map area. On moves or
zooming of the map area the respective places/articles are updated
(more views on the Wikipedia content are currently under development).
Everything is still a bit beta ;-) The CSS and JS code might require
some more tweaking. However, we are grateful for all hints, feedback
and ideas.

--sören

 

[Daz]

Hi all,

we thought it could be interesting to experiment with equipping
Wikipedia with some AJAX features. Result is a user interface for
Wikipedia, which is largely based on AJAX, thus enabling previews of
images or referenced articles without reloading the current Wikipedia
page. Its called Pediax and accessible at:

http://en.pediax.org

Pediax also allows geo-browsing, i.e. geo-referenced Wikipedia articles
(currently over 50,000) are displayed on a map. It shows the 20 most
popular places/articles in the currently selected map area. On moves or
zooming of the map area the respective places/articles are updated
(more views on the Wikipedia content are currently under development).
Everything is still a bit beta ;-) The CSS and JS code might require
some more tweaking. However, we are grateful for all hints, feedback
and ideas.

--sören

Very nice indeed. However, to me it felt clunky and not as responsive
as I'd expected. When I clicked, the browser hung. I'm not sure if this
is my browser, the script, too much data being sent/retrieved, or that
you might be using a synchronous call.

Other than that, it's not all the bad in the way it works. Thanks for
sharing it with us.