This is wicked exciting. Thanks to everyone involved! - J
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:24 PM, 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jonathan T. Morgan Community Research Lead Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
