Is there a facility to use this in VE?

On 6 May 2015 at 12:25, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is great but I'm still super super concerned about the support
> for "Embedded directly with <graph>". I'm concerned as if used this way we
> risk making wikitext even more like code and more difficult for others to
> edit. Also having it inside the page makes it really difficult to
> extract/encourage remixing of the data...
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/5/15, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Starting today, editors can use *<graph>* tag to include complex graphs
>> and
>> > maps inside articles.
>> >
>> > *Demo:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo
>> > *Vega's demo:*
>> http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix
>> > *Extension info:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph
>> > *Vega's docs:* https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki
>> > *Bug reports:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ - project tag #graph
>> >
>> > Graph tag support template parameter expansion. There is also a Graphoid
>> > service to convert graphs into images. Currently, Graphoid is used in
>> case
>> > the browser does not support modern JavaScript, but I plan to use it for
>> > all anonymous users - downloading large JS code needed to render graphs
>> is
>> > significantly slower than showing an image.
>> >
>> > Potential future growth (developers needed!):
>> > * Documentation and better tutorials
>> > * Visualize as you type - show changes in graph while editing its code
>> > * Visual Editor's plugin
>> > * Animation <https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki/Interaction-Scenarios
>> >
>> >
>> > Project history: Exactly one year ago, Dan Andreescu (milimetric) and Jon
>> > Robson demoed Vega visualization grammar <
>> https://trifacta.github.io/vega/>
>> > usage in MediaWiki. The project stayed dormant for almost half a year,
>> > until Zero team decided it was a good solution to do on-wiki graphs. The
>> > project was rewritten, and gained many new features, such as template
>> > parameters. Yet, doing graphs just for Zero portal seemed silly. Wider
>> > audience meant that we now had to support older browsers, thus Graphoid
>> > service was born.
>> >
>> > This project could not have happened without the help from Dan Andreescu,
>> > Brion Vibber, Timo Tijhof, Chris Steipp, Max Semenik,  Marko Obrovac,
>> > Alexandros Kosiaris, Jon Robson, Gabriel Wicke, and others who have
>> helped
>> > me develop,  test, instrument, and deploy Graph extension and Graphoid
>> > service. I also would like to thank the Vega team for making this amazing
>> > library.
>> >
>> > --Yurik
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>>
>> Hmm cool.
>>
>> One of the interesting things, is you can use the API as a data
>> source. For example, here is a pie graph of how images on commons
>> needing categories are divided up
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Sandbox&oldid=159978060
>> (One could even make that more general and have a template, which
>> given a cat name, would give a pie graph of how the subcategories are
>> divided in terms of number).
>>
>> --bawolff
>>
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