Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
If anybody's got any particularly interesting
issues, examples, problems,
or idea prototypes relating to usage of SVG on Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia sites, I'd love to see how much I can pack in. :)
I don't know if this is possible, but one feature I'd particularly like to
see in Wikipedia is parametrized SVG rendering. For example, when
illustrating location of each one of the 210 Slovenian municipalities, it
would be cool if (a) you could only have one file with map template, and (b)
then specify
"[[Image:Obcine_Slovenija_2006.svg|mark_tag="Trbovlje"|color=red]]"
or
something like that to get this result:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obcine_Slovenija_2006_Trbovlje.svg
In a present situation, I have to slightly modify the master SVG file and
upload 210 two-megabyte files, which is not amusing. Every few years
municipality borders get changed, so we have to upload 210+ two-megabyte
files yet again.
Is this possible at all?
While I agree that parametrized rendering would be cool, especially for
localization, I believe that maps will be a non-issue soon. Integration of
automatically generated maps from OpenStreetMap is being worked on. Hopefully,
we will soon have google-style interactive maps in wikipedia.
-- daniel