I've been thinking it would be really nice to build a Wiki kind of like this, but with interactive visualizations like the ones in http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction..... Of course Bret Victor has done a lot of exploration of that space, and I've done a few things like the live Burrows-Wheeler transform at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/bwt, but nothing really interesting. And Mike Bostock has done some amazing work in algorithm visualization, inspired by Victor, among others, at http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/, which also has a great list of links to similar things at the end. But without a shared repository we can all build on, Wiki-style, we are left with just the efforts of individuals or small groups, although some of those efforts are very inspiring.
In addition to visualizing the dynamic behavior of algorithms, I think we also lack good notation for their static structure; existing pseudocodes are verbose and pencil-unfriendly. APL was one attempt to solve that problem; I recently spent some time noodling around how to do a better job of solving it, specifically for the case of pencil-and-paper sketching, at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo. That page doesn't work super well on phones due to depending on <abbr> to explain some things, and I think the notation's readability leaves something to be desired.
I was kind of hoping MediaWiki's addition of Lua would help with this kind of thing, at least for producing static visualizations, but I don't think it has. The closest thing I've found is maybe actually JsFiddle, but it lacks the linking and social interaction that make a Wiki work.
JsFiddle's security model of isolating the active part in a frame on a separate domain might be one way to keep such an active-algorithm-Wiki from suffering from worms and cookie thieves. Caja is another. We need to figure this kind of thing out in order to move to a decentralized web like IPFS, not just for centralized Wikis of algorithm visualizations.
Awesome, I've lately found the quality of articles at wikipedia declining. Let's hope this will make up for it. I really like how the article just get to the core of the matter instead of droning on about various trivia.
This site was last modified in 2011, and represents a work in progress since it only covers a few algorithms such as convex hull and sorting.