WikiBreadthFirstSearch

Last edit May 11, 2005
A mode of WikiTraversal preferably implemented using a browser with tabs. Basically works like so:

  • Go to RecentChanges
  • For all open tabs, do:
    • Open all links in a new tab while reading the page
    • Close tab when you've read to the end

(If your browser does not have tabs, you can open links in new windows, but that would probably be a whole lot less convenient)

To make it a little more interesting, don't open all links - only the ones interesting to you.

I find this BreadthFirst traversal mode best for the times when I have time to kill but nothing specific to kill it with.

What's your traversal mode?

DepthFirst: start at FrontPage, follow the first blue (unvisited) link, repeat. Only backtrack if there are no blue links on the page.
See ReadTheWholeWiki