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(a)mzmcbride.com>om>:
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
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