Re: [ba-ohs-talk] TouchGraph WikiBrowser
At 07:09 13/03/02 -0800, John Sechrest wrote:
> For me, I would like to do some different types of things
> with my wiki viewing. I want to know things like:
>
> a) Please color the nodes differently based on number of visits (01)
Number of visits by whom? A good idea would be to show a colored history
of the path taken through the wiki. A record of one's traversals across
the wiki could be stored client side. (02)
> b) please color the nodes differently based on authors
> c) please color the nodes differently based on age
> d) please color the nodes differently based on number of changes
> e) please color the nodes differently based on student teams
> d) Please color the nodes differently based on recent changes (n
> days)
> f) Please color the nodes differently based on # of links off the
> wiki (03)
These are all great ideas. All this information would have to be extracted
from the server. (04)
A complexity about this scheme though is that it would not be possible to
implement all these colorings at once. Maybe a combo box that would let
one chose which coloring they preferred would be the right way to go. (05)
It appears that the two most important attributes specified above are (d)
and (e). The date of the last change could be displayed by changing the
node background (similar to memes.net), and the student group could be
displayed by an attached icon. (06)
Also, instead of coloring nodes by author, I think that it would be better
to show the authors as nodes, giving author nodes a different color scheme
then the rest of the nodes. (07)
Thanks for your suggestions,
--Alex (08)