There's an article for Microsoft Pivot at [1] . Originally it was a standalone
application (which is no longer supported), and now is a silverlight control
(PivotViewer). HTML5 is usually preferred to plugins, so some made an HTML5 version at
[2]. Sorry for the confusion.
The collections used for Pivot were snapshots. Even with monthly/bi-monthly snapshots,
this form of visualization would be better than the current one.
Are there any current tools that allow for this type of category intersection/joining?
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Pivot
[2]
http://lobsterpothtml5pv.codeplex.com/
-Small
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From: Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com>
To: Small M <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category
On Apr 11, 2013 10:56 AM, "Small M" <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
It was done before (albeit using a dedicated viewer
which is now a silverlight control). So it can be done.
First a warning: I can't
imagine a MediaWiki feature ever being enabled on WMF wikis if it works only with
silverlight. And you said HTML5 demo. One of the points of HTML5 is to move away from
plugins. So this is confusing. Or maybe there are 2 unrelated demos (a silverlight and an
HTML5)
I believe Brian's point was: this sort of feature would require access to raw category
data in a format that doesn't currently exist. (but can be generated from existing
data) If you've seen it done then what you've seen is probably based on a snapshot
in time (maybe from a dump) not from the live, current state of a WMF wiki.
-Jeremy