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Gollum: An alternative interface to Wikipedia
by Jordan Running Nov 28th 2005 at 3:05PM
Harald Hanek thought Wikipedia's interface was too complex and confusing, so he created Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser. Gollum is an open-source, AJAXy web app that strips away all the cruft and minimizes Wikipedia to the bare essentials: a toolbar, a search bar, and the article. Gollum also makes some tweaks to article presentation, such as bigger headings and moving the category list to the top of the page. There's also a bookmark facility for keeping track of important pages, a "Recommend this Article" button to send e-mail links to articles, and a big Print button. Though I find its interface pleasantly polished and uncluttered, Gollum Browser's Achilles heel may be its lack of tabs, which I find essential when browsing Wikipedia.[Via Waxy.org]
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Resource said 4:54PM on 11-28-2005
If Wikipedia is too complex for you then perhaps an encyclopedia is a bit beyond your level.
May I suggest a coloring book?
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Tom said 8:20PM on 11-28-2005
I saw this on digg yesterday, I found it only made wikipedia worse, to me it was mostly about the lack of tabs (I usually end up looking at alot of aticles when I go to wikipedia), and the way wikipedia looked kinda bothered me. I like the idea, a whole proof of concept thing, but practically, it's useless.
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Bud Landry said 11:32PM on 11-28-2005
Maybe a similar GreaseMonkey script for Firefox would be nice; but who in their right mind would want to load up yet another browser JUST to use Wikipedia? Might make a nice consolation prize tossed onto a DVD ROM version of Wikipedia...
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