So, some questions: * how important could that in-wiki image editing capability be? * has anything been done so far?
I'd like to find some topic suitable for university student to work on. So here it is: free workforce for wiki. Act now the get that! Offer some topics. PHP related tasks preferred. Ivo 2016-02-04 14:20 GMT+02:00 Ivo Kruusamägi <ivo.kruusam...@gmail.com>: > 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 <z...@mzmcbride.com>: > >> 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 >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
