I can't speak for the Wikimedia tech folks, but as someone who's done some creation of on-wiki tours I'll say...
Wow, this is really cool! This is exactly the kind of thing we need to really open up the creation of Guided Tours to the community. I'm imagining this as MediaWiki gadget, such that a user can enable it, record a walkthrough on the wiki itself, and then at the end, have the opportunity to save the resulting walkthrough code on a wiki page. Is that feasible, or is the WalkHub documentation format too far away from the MediaWiki extension implementation of GuidedTours? Integrating it into Wikipedia might be a great project for someone to tackle as an Individual Engagement Grant project.[1]
Thanks, Kristof! I read in YouTube comments that you're planning another crowdfunding campaign for this. I look forward to pitching in!
[1] = http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
-Sage
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Kristof Van Tomme kristof@pronovix.com wrote:
We are working on an open source tool, WalkHub, that enables a community to collaborate wiki style on GuidedTours (or Walkthroughs, that's what we call them).
-Recording a tour could become a matter of clicking a record button; -Editing a tour, a matter of clicking the edit button in the tour and making a change. -The tool automatically generates screenshots and an embeddable widget that you can use for example to show off new functionality on a blog
I heard about the GuidedTours project from Erik Möller at FOSDEM and I was wondering if the team that is working on it would be interested in our project.
This is a demo movie of our first recorder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZWt4qfxU0U the section where I record a Walkthrough on Wikipedia: http://youtu.be/0ZWt4qfxU0U?t=2m34s
This is a Walkthrough we recorded on Wikipedia: http://walkhub.net/content/how-donate-wikipedia
Cheers, Kristof
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