[imiric]

It's a shame that this kind of interesting and interactive learning experiences have been dispersed and relegated to obscure parts of the web, instead of being part of a central repository of knowledge.

In my teens I used to spend hours marvelling at similar visualizations that were part of Encarta. Most of them were technically crude compared to what we can do today, so I feel that we lost a crucial opportunity to spread knowledge.

While Wikipedia is great, it's mostly a static repository, and pales in comparison when it comes to engagement. I think there's still a chance for an organization to curate the content on Wikipedia, and make it interactive and engaging, since Wikimedia is clearly not interested.

[reddalo]

I agree. I spent countless of hours on Encarta. The interactive experiences, the 360° maps, even the small quiz games were a beautiful way to learn and discover new things.

Wikipedia has way more content, but not this kind of things. I wonder if there is a way to curate such content in a crowdsourced way, however.

[wara23arish]

I also remember spending hours and hours on an old version of encarta. It had everything from geography to biology.

Maybe the ipads they give to kids these days are similar but we haven’t experienced them?

[licnep]

That's a great idea, a version of wikipedia with iframe embeds could allow for this, though it would be even better if these small websites could be directly uploaded by editors as html/js/css so they wouldnt depend on external websites and could be versioned and preserved.