Very cool displays! Kudos to the Basque community's spirit of innovation.

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 2:07 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga via Wikimedia-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I'm writing to introduce *Hiruwiki*, a brand-new system for interactive
> visualization of math and geometry:
> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hiruwiki.
>
> 25 years ago, Wikipedia was born and totally changed how the world
> accessed knowledge. However, most of our efforts have been centered in a
> text-based encyclopedia, leaving other ways of knowledge behind. The Basque
> Wikimedians User Group has been working on interactive and multimedia
> features in the last years, from a huge pedagogic video project (
> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza/Ikusgela) to early adopting
> projects like OWID (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:OWID),
> VideoWiki (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VideoWiki) or
> Calculator (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Calculator).
>
> Articles about math concepts are normally presented only by text,
> sometimes small illustrations, which makes them complex to understand.
> Learners are normally more interested in visualizations like GeoGebra or
> videos where the concepts are explained. With *Hiruwiki*, a pun between
> wiki and the Basque world for triangle, *hiruki*, we are adding some of
> the features that projects like GeoGebra have into Wikipedia. Using the
> technology from Template Gadgets allows to create independent modules that
> will explain different concepts, in a safe and scalable way.
>
> Currently Hiruwiki has 25 modules, from how to explain percents to angles
> of triangles, and from probability to how the area of a circle is
> calculated. Each of the modules can be translated into any other language
> and is ready to use. You only need someone with interface rights in your
> wiki to start using them. The project was developed during the Northwestern
> Europe Hackathon, and some internationalization can happen during the
> Hackathon in Milano.
>
> You can see it at work at https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hiruwiki,
> or in any of the 50 articles at Basque Wikipedia using the technology:
> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategoria:Hiruwiki.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in making this available in your
> wiki, translating it (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420204),
> improving the code or adding some new modules.
>
> Best,
>
> Galder Gonzalez
> Basque Wikimedians User Group
>
>
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