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Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures
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#12This is cool, I love how it shows you all the branches you've followed in actual tree diagram.
The concept reminds of https://browser.horse/ a bit, which has the concept of "trails" that track any links you visit. Great for research projects.
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#13This is really cool! It would be super neat if the nodes were more interconnected, forming a fully connected graph rather than just a tree.
This is tracking the user's trajectory through the site, necessarily a tree, not the network structure of W itself.
How is the user journey through the site necessarily a tree? What prevents the user to create loops through their journey?
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#14This is great! Will try to give a try later
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#15This is great! Will try to give a try later
Narrator: they didn't.
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#16This is really cool! It would be super neat if the nodes were more interconnected, forming a fully connected graph rather than just a tree.
That would be technically more "accurate", but it doesn't yield more useful information and ends up being harder to read.
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#17Have you tried out a tangled-tree visualization? [1] I've found it to be super useful when visualizing these sorts of relationships in a compact way, and it naturally sorts the data topologically.
[1] https://observablehq.com/@nitaku/tangled-tree-visualization-...
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#18That's cool.
I do find it ironic though that wikipedia is one of the major sites with the least amount of user tracking, and then users decide to implement the tracking themselves.
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#19Cool tool. Might be cool to make something wikipedia agnostic. Sometimes I manually create such a thing via obsidian but its kind of tedious. It's interesting how sometimes different starting sources read far apart in time lead to rabbitholes which cross paths.
This reminds me of a python scraper I wrote a while back when I was learning to program - Youtube rabbithole: https://github.com/BlairCurrey/youtube-rabbithole
It basically just follows the next recommended video, recording the path along the way. More about tracing the youtube algorithm than tracking your own journey.
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