WikiAndGraphs

Wiki and graphs are a natural combination. Both are networks.

• First there was TouchGraph wiki browser.

• Now SVG Wiki : http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/11/19/svgwiki.html

• and http://thelackthereof.org/wiki.pl/Graph_Module

Some thoughts ...

So we have graphs of wiki.

And we have wikis where we can draw graphs.

What I want (and I've thought about in BEACH for example) is a combination of two levels :

• wiki in which boxes and arrows network diagrams can be drawn

• where nodes link to different pages

• BUT the links represented in the diagram are NOT the same as the ordinary links between pages :

• a diagram represents a particular index or view of a bunch of pages, it asserts that these pages are related in this way from the perspective of this page. These diagrams are like the themes or other high level indexes I describe in InformationArchitectureOfThisWiki.

A version of this is at SdiDesk