Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

Thank you for that input! I'll send an e-mail to him and check that. I'm lot more familiar with Commons and the community there, than with software developing part. I've been leading projects Minority Translate and WikiComment , but I'm no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

There is some work towards in browser image editing (see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-December/001219.html) but im not sure what the status of that is. In the past there was also some work around Extension:SVGEdit, but that seems to have died Gamification at commons may b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

Ivo, there are two aspects of building graphs for Wiki: * defining a "type" or "style" of a graph * instantiating a graph with the specific data Defining a new graph is a relatively complex programming task - one has to program how graph would look like using Vega syntax. Instantiating is much eas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

So, some questions: * how important could that in-wiki image editing capability be? * has anything been done so far? I'd like to find some topic suitable for university student to work on. So here it is: free workforce for wiki. Act now the get that! Offer some topics. PHP related tasks preferred

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

OK, this Graph extension seems rather advanced and even though not exactly what I had in mind, somewhat similar. So may I conclude it would be pointless to go into that direction? Or are there some things, that may need someone to work with them? Like (making random example): building very simple V

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

Ivo Kruusamägi wrote: >What I'd like to see is some development, that would make it possible for >user to create visualizations inside MediaWiki. Something so easy that a >child could do that. Like this . Workflow example: 1) >user selects sth like Create Data Visualization, 2)

[Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

For some time now I've thought that possibilities for data visualization in Wikipedia (or in MediaWiki) are pretty bad. So I'll describe one idea below and would like to get some feedback. Reason is simple: I'd like to give this task to one university student so that he could solve that issue. Wh