Ivo Kruusamägi wrote: >What I'd like to see is some development, that would make it possible for >user to create visualizations inside MediaWiki. Something so easy that a >child could do that. Like this <https://infogr.am/>. Workflow example: 1) >user selects sth like Create Data Visualization, 2) has some selections >about cart type, colors, etc, 3) place to write down text (title, axes, >description) and 4) a table to fill in with data (values + their text >labels). That could then be saved as one revision. After that every other >user could edit this graph with the same selections and data tables just >like users edit articles and edit history is saved and easy to compare. > >Image files like this ><https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilt:VikiArtiklitearv.jpg> or that ><https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_map_exports_2010_Estonia.svg > are ridiculous and fixes like that ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Pie_chart> are not that flexible, >pretty and easy to use as what we need. So lets move forward.
Are you familiar with the "Graph" MediaWiki extension? Here's a demo: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo>. This MediaWiki extension is deployed to Wikimedia wikis, including all the Wikipedias. >There are plenty of GPL licensed solutions that could be integrated with >MediaWiki. But I can't be only one thinking about this. You're not. :-) >So what should I know about that topic so that this work could really be >useful? I.e. how to avoid reinventing the wheel (like building something >already in development) and how to be sure that it could be easily >incorporated later? Who would be the perfect people to talk about this >topic? This mailing list is great for general discussion. Or we have a Phabricator installation at <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/> where we track bugs and feature requests. You can search around for Phabricator Maniphest task related to vectorized and rasterized image editors, such as <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39732>. You're welcome to discuss on those tasks. Integrating a decent SVG editor and a decent PNG/JPG/GIF editor would be amazing! >P.S: I also have some development plans for a web platform that will help >to gamify organizing media files in Wikimedia Commons (coordinates, >categories, descriptions, quality assessment, etc). Sort like adding an >additional data layer and when everything works fine then migrating that >information into Commons. Any great ideas there as well? (not so great >ideas could be sent to list :P ) Sure. Maybe poke around <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/> if you haven't already? It sounds similar to what you want to do. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
