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Our p2pfoundation.net wiki has been growing by leaps and bounds in 2007.
Our December 30 statistics page informs us that the wiki “now contains 6,360 total pages in the database of which there are 4,360 pages that are probably legitimate content pages”. These have generated 2,478,744 page views.
Growth creates its own challenges one of which is the ability of new users to navigate a conceptual space in which each section contains several hundred concepts. Though we do our best to provide overviews at the start of each directory, we have also decided to attempt a new layer of visualization.
That we can do this is thanks to a bright young Thai designer, PURIN PHANICHPHANT, and who has worked closely with me to create a first visualization, which concerns the P2P Business Trends, not coincidentally the most popular topical page in our wiki.
This means that in addition to our existing and very general P2P Meme Map, we now have a P2P Business Trends map which exists both in small thumbnail version, and in a larger poster version.
What we would appreciate is the following: to find volunteers who would make the map interactive, since each concept is also an entry in our wiki. Seach a clickable map could then be uploaded to Flickr, and become collaborative, as users could add new items when new concepts arise.
Our engagement is to create one such map each month for 2008.
I think this is a great idea. It really helps to show a big picture of what’s there laid out in a professional and clean way, so that people can use these as presentation slides, posters, computer background pictures, and so forth, to communicate where their work fits in with others, and to remind themselves.
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