provide user interface (VIKI)

[krabina]

For documentation purposes, I am suggesting features that were present in the VIKI extension and could be improvments for the network extension in the future. The following is copied from the VIKI documentation. As the VIKI interface was somewhat cluttered, it does not necessarily make sense to add all features. So this needs to be discussed here before implementing.

Usage

Users may right click on a given node to bring up a context menu of options. Below is a list of all possible options, but not all nodes may have all options as appropriate.

• Freeze: this node becomes frozen in position while other nodes may move around it
• Visit Page: opens the page represented by the node in a new tab or window
• Elaborate: elaborates a node, as discussed previously
• Show Categories: Pops up a JavaScript alert listing the categories this page belongs to. (Under construction.)
• Hide Node: Removes this node and links to it from the VIKI graph.
• Hide Hub: Removes this hub node and all nodes immediately linked to it from the VIKI graph, unless the linked node is itself a hub.
• Show All: Adds all previously-hidden nodes and links back into the VIKI graph.

To embed a VIKI graph into a page, the following parser function syntax is used:

{{ #viki:pageTitles=First Page Title, Second Page Title,…|width=width|height=height|delimiter=delimiter|secondOrderLinks=<true or false> }}

Parameters

• secondOrderLinks: boolean value for whether to calculate and display 2nd order links, which is performance-expensive (optional, default: the value of $wgVIKI_Second_Order_Links, if set, or false if not)

Second order links were displayed in a different colour (grey):

This is what the burger menu looks like:

[krabina]

This is partly implemented by #25