There is some work towards in browser image editing (see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-December/001219.html) but im not sure what the status of that is. In the past there was also some work around Extension:SVGEdit, but that seems to have died
Gamification at commons may be interesting. There are lots of images that need their licenses reviewed, need categories added, etc. However getting user requirements for this might be tricky. The commons community can be very hostile if they perceive a product to not meet user requriements, so one has to be careful and be sure to consult the community every step of the way. Even just a more immersive interface for reviewing images might be useful. Once upon a time i tried to make a game out of ranking images ( https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/whichisbetter/index.php?title=Main_Page ), but that went nowhere. In retrospect, image ranking isn't an activity that people were already doing, so it was a poor choice for gamification. I think something involving reviewing images might get a lot more traction. -- -bawolff On Thursday, February 4, 2016, Ivo Kruusamägi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]>: > >> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
