As pages within large public wikis – such as Wikipedia – become more complex, you may be finding it harder to find exactly what you’re looking for. Fortunately, Felix Nyffeneger has developed an innovative solution: to present an overview of the page’s contents in the form of a mind map. He calls this intriguing new tool WikiMindmap. It currently enables you to search Wikipedia in 5 languages, but Felix wants users to suggest additional public wikis he can add to this fascinating wiki search engine.
I did a search on "mind map" (image, above right) and you can see how the major sections of the Wikipedia mind map page are displayed as major branches, which can be expanded to reveal additional levels of detail. At any point, you can click on a topic to open the corresponding Wikipedia content.
Great job, Felix! And thanks to Vic from Mind-Mapping.org for alerting me to WikiMindmap!
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