Hoi,
For your information there are several things Wikidata can already do.
- When for instance a district is associated with a "shape", multiple
shapes could be known and dated by Wikidata.
- It could know of the existence of maps and when a map is defined in a
way that allows for queries, typically the four corners of a map allow for
the calculation of a radius
- we can query maps to find out if a specific coordinate and
consequently item is in that map.
- Finally, there are several examples of the results of queries shown on
a map. Reasonator has a button that shows a map for every item that is in a
15km range of the item involved. Colossus has buid tool that shows classes
on a map based in Wikidata info..
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
Folks, this looks really fantastic, way to go!!
I'd really love to contribute to this, as time allows, BTW.
* Data (one or more sets of data, can be geojson, topojson, tsv, csv,
layers from OSM [3], OHM [4], etc.)
<snip /
* Datasets in WikiData using an alternative data model
I'm especially interested in what
could be done with Wikidata queries, and
hooking those into a Wiki's metadata. I think this has tons of potential
for analyzing contributions to Wikipedia in a collaborative way. A bit a la
Wikimetrics but with many more options for pulling in and hooking up data
of various sorts, on-wiki.
It would also be great to hook this into activity feeds for sets of users
or articles, for example, so you could go back and forth between a stream
of edits and aggregate data about them, or maybe even overlay a graph on a
stream of edits along a timeline.
Finally, it would be nice to be able to define data transformations and
visualizations in a modular way. For example, if one user has an
interesting data set or Wikidata query that pulls in information on events
related to a certain topic, and another user has defined a nice way of
visualizing events on a timeline, a third might be able to use the first
user's data with the second user's visualization defintion, or even bring
in data on a different set of events, and display both sets in a single
visualization, etc., etc. Mmm, just a thought...
It's a word that means "to illuminate": Limn [5].
>
> 3) It's a word that is
difficult to translate.
How about "Munge"? As in, it
munges data so you can view it in different
ways? That's easy to translate! Rhymes with "grunge"...
Cheers,
Andrew
On 15/05/14 15:59, Dan Andreescu wrote:
> By the way, the Vega work is deployed to this wiki:
>
http://analytics-wiki.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/Main_Page#Visualization
> Jon/DJ/Aude, if you want I can add a
more generic proxy name for that wiki
> and put your stuff on there too? It's in the analytics project in labs
> but
> I'm happy to give anyone rights to it.
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org
> wrote:
> I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s?
>
>> The only downside might be a
slight conflict with VisualEditor
>
>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:20 AM, dan-nl
<dan.entous.wikimedia(a)gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>
>> PictureIt:
>>> Envision:
>>> Imagine:
>>
>>> On May 15, 2014, at
17:06 , Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Visual: ?
>>>> On 14 May 2014 10:44, "Derk-Jan Hartman"
<d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> PS, i'm
building an instance that is running this extension.
>>>>
>>>>> On
Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a
>>>>>> generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many
maps
>>>>>> like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we
>>>>>> standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we
share
>>>>>> data better.
>>>>>
>>>>>> We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to
imagine
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied
into a
>>>>>> specific use case.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The extension we came up with was a map extension that
introduces a
>>>>>> Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and
can
>>>>>> be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows
the
>>>>>> inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation
namespace which
>>>>>> may
>>>>>> want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a
>>>>>> visualisation.
>>>>>> I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this
extension. In
>>>>>> particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question
"For my
>>>>>> usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for
me to
>>>>>> use it".
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's
finally get a
>>>>>> maps extension up on a wikimedia box!
>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps
>>>>>
>>>>>
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