[WikiEN-l] Slidershow: Proposal for a JavaScript-based feature to enhance some articles

[paolo massa]

Beautiful!
On Manypedia we wanted to give a visual impression of the two compared
articles (same article from 2 different language wikipedias) and we used a
bit of jquery to assemble thumbnails of all images on top of the article
page. If you mouse over an image, you can see the enlarged image.
For an example see
http://www.manypedia.com/#|en|Jerusalem|ar
or search for any other page on Manypedia.

Feedback is welcome!

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Paolo Massa
Email: paolo AT gnuband DOT org
Blog: http://gnuband.org


On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> Hello!
>
> A friend of mine wrote a piece of JavaScript that would allow editors to
> create a little widget inside an article that lets the user flick
> through a series of images (like an interactive slideshow).
>
> Would this be something that would be welcome to be added on Wikipedia?
>
> For example, if you had several maps of the world coloured according to
> data for various years, the user could flick through the years and see
> how the map changes.
>
> This has several advantages compared to existing solutions:
>
> 1. Animated GIFs cannot be controlled by the user, so the user cannot
> look at a particular frame for the amount of time that they want, and
> nor can they easily move backwards to an earlier frame.
>
> 2. Placing many of these images in a gallery or stacked vertically makes
> it quite hard to interpret a progression or to compare a specific part
> of the image.
>
> The solution we came up with would allow editors to place something like
> this in the article wikitext:
>
> <div class='slidershow' style='width: 300px'>
> ; Term One : [[Image:Image One.jpg|300px]] Description One
> ; Term Two : [[Image:Image Two.jpg|300px]] Description Two
> ; Term Three : [[Image:Image Three.jpg|300px]] Description Three
> </div>
>
> and the JavaScript would automatically trigger on the “slidershow”
> classname and turn this into an interactive widget.
>
> To demonstrate what the widget looks like, I uploaded it here:
>
>        http://timwi.de/wiki/slider.htm
>
> This currently works fine in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. (If there’s
> demand, we can try to get it to work in IE too).
>
> You can use mouse clicks, drag-and-drop, or the mouse wheel to operate
> the slider and flick through the images.
>
> Would this be something that would be welcome to be added on Wikipedia?
> It would only need adding to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] and the above
> wikitext would magically start working.
>
> If this is the wrong place to ask about this, please suggest where to
> ask instead.
>
> Thanks!
> Timwi
>
>
>
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