Yeah... try to look up some category theory terms you found in the wild on Wikipedia. You will not be enlightened.
I guess this can be generalized to most mathematics on Wikipedia.
I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
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Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#22Didn't Ted Nelson suggest this sort of in-situ display for transclusion in Xanadu?
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#23Wikipedia currently has a Beta feature name Hovercards You can enable it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
Thanks! Here is a screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/fXYAZgm.png
Unfortunately, it's not recursive, unlike "Navigation popups" described in what is currently the top comment. They are prettier though!
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#24About popups/tooltips/hovercards: I considered this approach, but decided to go with this sort of "inline" expansion for the following reasons:
1. A popup obscures the original text. This interferes with context, albeit admittedly to a much lesser degree than full-blown navigation, but still.
2. Multi-level popup hierarchies just don't look good, in my opinion.
3. You must dismiss a popup to continue, whereas with inline expansion you can just as well keep the expansion and continue reading.
4. The hover approach doesn't work as well for touch-devices (i.e. without a mouse).
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#25Wikipedia currently has a Beta feature name Hovercards You can enable it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
This is a nice start, but I already see one issue with this that the "Navigation popup" doesn't have: nothing on the hovercard is clickable, and thus you can't go more than one level down a tree.
The navigation popups are great except that if you move the mouse off them then they close, so as you traverse down the tree you lose parents. And you kinda end up with the same issue as before only now you really have no idea how you got there because you don't even have the open tabs to guide.[0]
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#26Wikipedia currently has a Beta feature name Hovercards You can enable it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
Totally didn't know about this! Cheers for the heads up.
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#27tldr.io chrome extension does something like this
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#28What we really need is for more Wikipedia writers to remember that it's an encyclopedia, not a technical reference manual.
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#29Maybe the prose could be written to assume less knowledge and reduce the amount of other material needed for most people to understand? Alternatively as a user preference the prose could auto-include the meanings of some terms?
Re: I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
#30I prefer popups (floating elements) instead of altering the flow of the document. The continuous re-flow of the document is distracting.