Visually Oriented Wiki
Yesterday's wiki have text and pictures. Perhaps tomorrow's wiki will have collaboratively-edited drawings.
We can envision that wiki will have tools to make it easier for people to collaborate over what they are talking about.
When you edited a page, somehow, you'd be able to not only position text and blocks of text, but also icons and images and lines and colors. You could put them anywhere, you could scale them up and down, and you could rotate them.
There would be a stock library of catagorized images, as well as keyword-search over images. You could also pull up all the images that were found on some other page, or that are presently on the page, since related icons will be used in related pages.
Anybody could contribute to the stock library, and improve icons in it. The stock library could even just be a collection of pages that keep icons and images.
The library would focus on icons rather than pictures, generally, because icons have greater meaning attributable to them. Icons would have icon pages, telling what they meant, and what they implied, and how they were related to other icons both in meaning and positioning.
Links
Some of the tools at the Symbol project
![[WWW]](/wiki/modern/img/moin-www.png)
http://SymbolWiki.org/ .
Discussion
I've been working on a peer-to-peer extension to ivtools, with a focus on small-as-possible granularity locking mechanisms. But if there was interest I could see revisiting the hyper-structured-graphics mechanisms of ivtools, especially in a Wiki context. Maybe even collaborate with William Cheng (the author of Tgif) to come up with a new standard supported by both Tgif and ivtools. -Scott Johnston (johnston at vectaport dot com).
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html (EditHint: move to a page more on "web browsing"; TouchGraph is not a wiki.)
![[Wiki]](/wiki/modern/img/moin-inter.png){kind=small}
WithinTwentyYears briefly mentions a "VerbalWiki", based on talking to the computer.
Maybe this would work good with cell-phone-size or MP3-player-sized devices. Then it wouldn't matter that they were too small to have a readable screen or a typeable keyboard. -- -- DavidCary 2004-10-19 23:25:23
(EditHint: this is the exact *opposite* of a VisuallyOrientedWiki. Move to a more appropriate page.)
I've been doing some writing in a pocket notebook, using the right side as paper wiki pages and the left side for doodles and links and sketches and graphs and such. I'm finding that the side by side orientation RectoVerso approach makes for much different thinking than with web browser long-scrolling text. -- EdwardVielmetti
See WysiwygWiki WikiWhiteboard