OK, this Graph extension seems rather advanced and even though not exactly what I had in mind, somewhat similar. So may I conclude it would be pointless to go into that direction? Or are there some things, that may need someone to work with them? Like (making random example): building very simple Visual Editor add-on to enable fast creation of some more simple graphs (like pie charts from the enormous variety of possibilities <http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/index.html>)?
Could I get more information about need for image editors? *I'd like to find something that might be suitable topic for bachelor thesis* and vandering around alone inside the topic not yet known to me may not prove to be fruitful. As for this Commons topic. Yes, something similar to Wikidata Game, but directed towards Commons and not Wikidata. More in line with Estonian sites Ajapaik <http://ajapaik.ee/?page=1> (for adding geolocation information to old images), sift.pics (for determining image types) and postkaart.ajapaik.ee (for digitalizing text in old postcards). Ivo 2016-02-04 5:00 GMT+02:00 MZMcBride <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
