An intriguing application of visual mapping: WikiMindmap

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!

Comments

[L Cook]

To the author:

Has your mindmapping software assisted those with executive function disabilities.....those with learning disabilites and/or brain damage?

[Felix]

Hi thank you, for blogging me! After some research, I found out that this blog was the origin of a lot of interest in WikiMindMap.
I'll keep on to improve it to make it a helpful tool! (b.t.w. It's funny that during my Ph.D about SW tools in innovation, I visited your website innovationtools.com quite often)

cu,
Felix

[Lone McCord]

It seems that mind mapping would help those that have executive functioning disabilities. I am presently employing it with my 14 year old son who is MR and on the Autism Spectrum. He is responding very well to it. I think it is too new an idea for there to be any research on it... at least there was none when I googled it. Hopefully more people like you and I will see the potential and do some studies on it.