Indywiki 0.9.9 Portable | 7,9 Mb
Indywiki is an open source project that aims to explore different ways of visually browsing wikipedia pages. This might be very helpful, especially in cases we are only interested to get an idea on the term we are searching for. In other words, browsing through images, while the text is still available to read! Indywiki also discovers and displays images that are contained on links to our search keyword. Images are displayed in tenths. So if we are searching for a city as an example, after we get all images displayed on the wikipedia page about this city, we'll start getting links about related items (that might be other cities in this country, personalities and culture of this city and practically everything related, the more we keep on getting images.
Indywiki achieves this by taking under consideration
1)articles that link to our article
2)articles that are linked from our article
3)categories to which our article and also all articles on 1) and 2) belong to.
All links get a score, that increases if a link is at 1) and 2), or if it belongs to one or more categories as our article. After indywiki has discovered the related articles, it parses them and fetches their first image, in case they have one. Usually the first image is the most representative of an article. We can continue the search for as long as we like!
Help
Indywiki is pretty straightforward to use.
When the program launches, write your search term on the box and press enter, or the magnifier icon. You will notice that the mouse pointer changes, an indication that something is happening. After a while (depending on your internet connection) text and images will start appearing on the screen. On the left text box titles are displayed. If you click on one of them, it's text will appear on the main text box. Text that appears on the main box is the summary of our search term, which is usually the first paragraphs -according to the wikipedia guidelines on how to write an article!
The text box located on the right of our program, contains wikipedia links founded on the article we are searching for. If you press one of them, a new search will start, with this keyword. After the first ten images are displayed, place the mouse pointer on one of them, and you will see the text accompanying the image on the wikipedia article, if there is one. If the page has less than ten images (or if it doesn't have any images at all), indywiki searches links of that page and displays their images, provided they have not been displayed before. If you notice the column character on one of the titles, the name before the column refers to the page where we got that image, and the string after the column is that image's description. After you have searched for a link and got back the result images, you can press the right arrow, that is on the upper side of the application. The application will try to fetch and display the next 10 images, if they exist, otherwise it will bring the images of the links found on the page we were looking for.Similarly you can press the left arrow and the application will display the previous ten images.
On the other side, if you click on an image that belongs to an article that is different than the term we are looking for, that image's article becomes our query, thus you will get back the results of that page. However, if you click on one image that has been fetched from the article we were looking for, the image will be displayed on a separate window, at it's normal size, not as a thumbnail!
Home: http://indywiki.sourceforge.net/
No mirrors please.