Hi Inderpreet, Welcome and thanks for reaching out, there is definitely the need of a 3d viewer for mediawiki and brl-cad could add some of the needed features. Probably you could contact Bryan Davis, since he offered himself as GsoC mentor for such a project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#New_me… I'm also CC'ing Fabrice Florin, product manager of the multimedia team, because I guess that the 3d viewer could be somehow related to the Multimedia Viewer. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer I hope it helps. Cheers, Micru On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Inderpreet Singh <indrplus(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non

On Jan 9, 2014 5:50 AM, "Inderpreet Singh" <indrplus(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Thanks for writing. Previous discussions aboit 3d have usually been about x3d and cml, but i think most people just want a 3d format supported, and dont care which one (to speak from a wikimedia as opposed to a mediawiki prespective). The basic requirements for a 3d viewer extension (somewhat pulled out of my hat, so some people might have different requitements) *Secure (obviously very important. No one wants xss in a media viewer. This also includes other things like not making network fetches on the server (this came up in the past with some file formats allowing additional files to be referenced by url)) *should probably allow manipulating the render on the client side (most people want to pan and zoom the 3d file or they would upload a raster file). *relatively efficient. Shouldnt take down the servers. *the php part of the extension should follow mediawiki coding style and quality standards. *should have some sort of fallback for non-js clients (e.g. a jpg thumb of the model) *all parts open source (sounds like this project has nothing to worry about) I dont really have time to help with such an effort, but would be happy to answer any questions about how media handler plugins work in mediawiki (the docs on that are pretty limited, so don't be afraid to ask). I would also be happy to look over extension code and give advice. -bawolff