Last modified: 2014-11-05 13:20:28 UTC
Hello, The problem: Every Wikipedia page contains a lot of hyperlinks to other Wikipedia pages. It becomes very annoying to click every hyperlink in order to understand every piece of information of 1 single page. For example: Look at the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics Even in the first sentence there are multiple hyperlinks. Let's say I don't know what the "Planck constant" is. I have to click the link and read the summary on the new page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant By the time I reach the end of the summary of Quantum Physics, I will have opened about 20 different pages. There is a simple solution for this! The solution: A javascript that opens an in-page popup, which contains (the first paragraph of) the summary of the topic of the linked page. This would mean: If I hover with my mouse over the link "Planck constant", a little popup screen would open underneath the link. This popup screen contains the first paragraph of the summary of the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant I can now easily understand the complete summary of "Quantum Physics" without having to open a single link! I believe this function could improve Wikipedia a lot, by improving the speed of information coming to the user. In case you need/want an example of how this would look, I'd be happy to provide an example html+database+javascript to show you. If this idea intrigues you, please contact me. I wish you a pleasant day, Paul R. Roos
Hi Paul, you could enable "Hovercards" under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
