Searching examples of multi-level, knowledge-based webpages (wikis, glossaries, etc)

[martinar]

Does anybody know if there exists a wiki, glossary or something similar where users can display information based on their level of knowledge?

On the website there would be a slider or menu where one can choose the level of completeness of the information based on the level of knowledge (e.g. "Novice", "Intermediate", "Expert", and so on).

Example:
I want to display only the basic description of the term "Computer". I choose the "Novice" level and the glossary will only display some basic information about a computer. If I choose the "Intermediate" level, some technical informations are added to the description and if I choose the "Expert" level, I obtain complete information about the computer, even some information which only an informatician can understand and deal with.

I am asking because I have to hand in a project where a similar structure is asked (a web-based glossary which is divided into several layers and where a visitor can choose how many details of a description he wants to dispay depending on his knowledge) and I wanted to give some examples of other, existing pages (and of course take inspiration from these examples), but I am unable to find such a webpage.

Any suggestions?

 

[Concordedly]

I don't know of any examples, but I can't imagine it would be very difficult to build. Whether you actually use a 'slider' or even drop-down boxes to choose the 'proficiency level' and it would edit what is displayed. Similar to HTML/CSS generators Input/Output, blah blah blah. Kind of a neat idea though. Never thought of using it in terms of proficiency levels.

Innovation +1

 

[tlarkin]

Are you looking to create such a page? You need to run some sort of meta data and tagging on the back end like taxonomy or something like that.

I don't know anyone who has made that sort of thing but it would be possible and it would also take a lot of work.