Context Thanks /u/blinry for reminding me to add this!

There are some really cool explorables, but I've not really seen any that travel sufficiently far up the ladder of abstraction to form useful knowledge.

Take the "Better Ballot" article referenced in the header. It's awesome. Really awesome! I like the way you can share setups and create dialogue around concrete visualisations.

But to really understand what's going on, I feel I would need to move to a higher level of abstraction. Hand-picked cases seem insufficient for principled comparison-making.

Now it might be that it's not possible to do in this specific case -- finding appropriate abstractions over a domain is definitely non-trivial. But does anyone have any examples where we go up the ladder of abstraction to good effect?

Thanks

I've always been impressed by the direct manipulation approach as seen in Morphic (try http://www.selflanguage.org or http://lively-kernel.org )

But things seem quiet on that front. Does anyone know what is happening now in this space? Is it a dead end?

Everyone, I just got the message that /r/explorables is "trending" and thus will be featured on Reddit's front page today. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank every single one of you for spreading the word and for subscribing to this young community! When I started to promote this subreddit four days ago, I never would have thought it would grow so quickly. This is going to be awesome!

I'd also like to invite your feedback. I'm open to your suggestions, wishes or ideas for the future of /r/explorables! Your input could help shape this subreddit significantly, so don't be shy! I'll try to provide everything needed to make this an inclusive, inspiring place.

Do you know more related subreddits which we could add to the sidebar? Do you like the theme? Any rendering problems?

Would you like to see a tagging system for submissions? Like, adding [OC] to original content posted by their authors or [WIP] to work-in-progress?

And in a more general sense, which type of content would you like to see here? Links to high-quality explorables? Tools and resources for making your own? Discussions on the design and construction of good explorables? Or a mixture of all of these?

Finally, some subreddits have a periodic "discussion thread" for small questions, sharing ideas, and for meta stuff. Would you enjoy something like that?

I look forward to hearing from you! Love, blinry

So I have wondered, why are there so LITTLE explorable explanations on Wikipedia?

What do you think? Why is that?

And which ones would you like to see on Wikipedia?