On 11/26/15, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> I would like to share my vision for Wikipedia's future, as well as some
> steps that could help us get there. I hope you find it useful. Please share
> your feedback and ideas.
>
> Vision: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/I_Dream_of_Content
> Implementation:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/From_Dream_to_Reality
>
> Thanks!
>
> P.S. The first link was previously shared on a different mailing list.
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Some people in the past (I think) have suggested allowing scripted
svgs (Perhaps with restrictions on the scripts), embedded on pages
using sandboxed 's, and coming from an entirely different
domain [I'm not sure if that's sufficient for security or not. It
might be], with the idea of using them for interactive demonstrations.
Have you given any thoughts about that approach?
At the moment, the closest thing to what you're suggested, is the
experiment at eswiki about using dedicates site js to do things with
canvas (see https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juego_de_la_vida and
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormiga_de_Langton ).
I personally find vega syntax almost impossible to understand, and I'm
significantly more technical than the average user. I think the
opaqueness of the syntax has made graph functionality significantly
underfulfil its potential. As it stands, after quite a while of it
being deployed, there are only 12 main namespace articles on enwiki
with graphs on them, the majority of which use the {{graphChart}}
wrapper to make a rather boring line graph. The most interesting is
probably on [[Expansion_timeline_of_the_Moscow_Metro]], which is still
your run of the mill chart. These are not the exciting visualizations
that I was hoping the community would come up with.
Thus I think its important that we give the community tools that not
only make it possible to add cool things, but also make it easy for
users.
--
-bawolff
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