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