Design/Archive/Wikimedia User Interface/Concepts/Explorer

Explorer is an idea for alternative interfaces to browse articles.

The problems: The traditional way to browse articles is to search first, read and then follow links inside the one article to reach the next one. Added to this were at some point Categories an navboxes. Especially these latter two are highly limited by the technology as was available to us back then and especially categories are also severly limited by how we use them to create structure and organization. The UI reflects this structure strictly, but is therefor sometimes not as effecient as it could be to browse content (consider how subcategories are basically hiding links).