Very cool displays! Kudos to the Basque community's spirit of innovation. A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Lead Program Officer, Emerging Communities Community Development Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/HJMVQQDGZ2F43QSM32SOAQ26B2PPNDVL/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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