Like many, I look at wikipedia to in a way learn about computers and computer science. But I frequently fall for the problem of opening more and more wiki pages, based on the related links at the bottom of a wiki page or whenever I find a word I don’t know in an article. I try to read them as they come along, but the number of tabs expands at an exponential rate and I can’t think of a good system for managing them. It’s especially distracting when I have other work going on in my Firefox.
Bookmarking fails at the task, and I can’t have 30 tabs open at once.
Hence, I was wondering if other capable programmers had come across this problem and made a wikipedia browser maybe? One that would be standalone from your web browser and read more like a paper encyclopedia with a wikis to read managing tool, maybe favorite wiki pages tool etc?
I know this question is open ended, and maybe poorly explained but hopefully someone has an idea of what I am asking for ^_^. If not, I might consider adding it to a possible project for me to do.
Well, after some extensive Google searching, I can’t really answer my own question. The closest you can get to keeping track of Wiki pages to read without bookmarking them is the Firefox extension ReadMeLater.
I did find a wikipedia only browser, but i couldn’t really find the advantage to it. Its the Gollum wikipedia browser and can be found at http://gollum.easycp.de/en/ . I even thought it was a little slow.
Maybe WikiBooks? And if you can make your own book to keep track of what you want to read.