Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
The project involves development of an enhanced Wikipedia Browser. The standard browser is rather limited and in particular does not support the navigation of an extensively linked web of related topics. A user who explores the Wikipedia has to navigate manually through links, move forward and backwards using only the standard and rather limited navigation features of a browser (e.g. use forward/backward or history navigation, or use multiple tabs, etc.)
We are looking to create a Wikipedia browser that will be dedicated to the interaction mode of Wikipedia users. It should provide a totally different exploration experience. It should support multiple links per anchor, it should remember where a user had been and provide a suitable visual representation to assist the user. It should try and predict what page a user might visit next, or suggest other links. It should assist users in discovering related documents that are not explicitly linked to the viewed document, and so on. Finally, we are looking to integrate a GUI for generating new pages in the Wikipedia to improve significantly on the existing tool which assumes too much about the ability of the user to manage the process. The GUI should also support extensive link discovery so that the new page can immediately be linked to/from existing pages.
Software: Java, Database. Good programming skills and enjoyment of programming are essential.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Associate Professor Shlomo Geva
