I think this is great but I'm still super super concerned about the support
for "Embedded directly with <graph>". I'm concerned as if used this
way we
risk making wikitext even more like code and more difficult for others to
edit. Also having it inside the page makes it really difficult to
extract/encourage remixing of the data...
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/5/15, Yuri Astrakhan
<yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Starting today, editors can use *<graph>*
tag to include complex graphs
and
http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix
*Extension info:*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph
*Vega's docs:*
https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki
*Bug reports:*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ - project tag #graph
Graph tag support template parameter expansion. There is also a Graphoid
service to convert graphs into images. Currently, Graphoid is used in
case
the browser does not support modern JavaScript,
but I plan to use it for
all anonymous users - downloading large JS code needed to render graphs
is
significantly slower than showing an image.
Potential future growth (developers needed!):
* Documentation and better tutorials
* Visualize as you type - show changes in graph while editing its code
* Visual Editor's plugin
* Animation <https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki/Interaction-Scenarios
Project history: Exactly one year ago, Dan Andreescu (milimetric) and Jon
Robson demoed Vega visualization grammar <
https://trifacta.github.io/vega/>
usage in MediaWiki. The project stayed dormant
for almost half a year,
until Zero team decided it was a good solution to do on-wiki graphs. The
project was rewritten, and gained many new features, such as template
parameters. Yet, doing graphs just for Zero portal seemed silly. Wider
audience meant that we now had to support older browsers, thus Graphoid
service was born.
This project could not have happened without the help from Dan Andreescu,
Brion Vibber, Timo Tijhof, Chris Steipp, Max Semenik, Marko Obrovac,
Alexandros Kosiaris, Jon Robson, Gabriel Wicke, and others who have
helped
me develop, test, instrument, and deploy Graph
extension and Graphoid
service. I also would like to thank the Vega team for making this amazing
library.
--Yurik
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Hmm cool.
One of the interesting things, is you can use the API as a data
source. For example, here is a pie graph of how images on commons
needing categories are divided up
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Sandbox&oldid=1…
(One could even make that more general and have a template, which
given a cat name, would give a pie graph of how the subcategories are
divided in terms of number).
--bawolff
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