You might want to check out the VE parts of the graph extension. It sounds like a good analogue for what you want to do, where there's a pop-up to edit the JSON (as well as a visual component) that is interpreted as a Vega graph, which is an external library (https://vega.github.io/vega/). Code for the VE parts here: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Graph/tree/master/modules/ve-graph .
The documentation for VE is largely auto-generated, i.e. for ContentAction: https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/#!/api/ve.ui.ContentAction (which https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Gadgets/Add_a_tool#Create_and_register_command links to if you haven't seen that page yet) There's also #wikimedia-editing on irc although it tends to be a bit dead as well, but still probably better than #mediawiki :). Cheers, Marielle On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:38 PM Alain PERRY <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I was sent here from the #mediawiki IRC channel, I hope this is indeed the > correct list to write to and ask you to please forgive me if it is not. > > First, a bit about myself: I'm no real developer, just a tech-savvy guy > trying to build a wiki to document my employer's company inner workings. > This last bit means documenting any piece of information we handle and our > business processes in doing so. > > After testing a few wiki engines, I came to the conclusion that mediawiki > with the cargo extension was what I was looking for. I also built a small > extension to allow inclusion and edition of BPMN diagrams with the > https://bpmn.io library. All in all, this is pretty basic. > > Then I came to the realization that if I wanted any lambda-user to be > willing to contribute to the wiki content, I needed the Visual Editor. > Deploying it was easy enough, and everything seems to be working fine at > the moment. > > I however feel I should make it possible to include a BPMN diagram from > the VE toolbar. Ideally, this will take the form of a "popup" that will > include the bpmn.io modeler to edit the diagram. However, in order to > achieve this goal, I have a whole damn lot to learn and to experiment with > about VE. > > So I thought I should start with something a little humbler: a button that > would just include some basic XML in the page (a special page already > allows editing that part of the page, so this would already be convenient, > though far from perfect). Using the gadgets example from the documentation > on the mediawiki wiki, I'm able to insert content into the page. But that > content is escaped if it includes XML and I have no idea from the API doc > how to include something less basic than mere text (or than a given > template, since the example actually shows how to do that). > > What I'm actually getting at is this: would someone with good knowledge of > the API and some good old patience be willing to "tutor" me by giving > pointers where I need them ? > > My first technical question would be this: I understand that my gadget can > register a ve.ui.Command, that will in turn call a method on an > ve.ui.Action object. I guess I should stick to the ContentAction one. But > I'm not sure what the "content" parameter should contain if given an array. > Is there, somewhere, some documentation I can read on this? > > Thanks a bunch for any help. > > Regards, > > -- > Alain Perry > > _______________________________________________ > 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
