Wikipedia, Reloaded

What could be better than Wikipedia? How about adding videos, maps, photos, diagrams, and content from Google, Yahoo News and Google Maps?

That's exactly what VisWiki does. VisWiki defines itself as "a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information."

What it doesn't mention is how much fun it is to use.

When you click on a topic, all the information available is organized on one page. The top section contains a description of the topic. Using your mouse to hover over any terms that are highlighted in blue will pop up a definition of the term.
Related information is shown in bold with a plus sign that when clicked drops down an article.
Next up is a cloud tag, filled with links relevant to the topic.
After that you get an amazing diagram with links to connected topics.

At the bottom of each page there are videos from YouTube, and links to other services that offer additional context - Google, Yahoo News and Google Maps, to name a few.
The right hand pane contains even more information - related photos in a slide show, a video, a section on additional Page Catergories, a section with links to recommended articles, and a link to see content in other languages.
The main page is a treat, with a Featured article, a "Did You Know", a section on In The News, a Featured Picture.......you get the idea.

The site, which is unaffiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation, creates an astounding amount of contextual content around Wikipedia articles. Its a knowledge lovers paradise.

VisWiki

Signing off,
Rhiannon 

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