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.)
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- 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].
- 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@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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@gmail.comwrote:
PictureIt: Envision: Imagine:
On May 15, 2014, at 17:06 , Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, "Derk-Jan Hartman" d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@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@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