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.wikime...@gmail.com>wrote: > PictureIt: > Envision: > Imagine: > > On May 15, 2014, at 17:06 , Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Visual: ? > > On 14 May 2014 10:44, "Derk-Jan Hartman" <d.j.hartman+wmf...@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 <jrob...@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 > >>> > >>> [1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikitech-l mailing list > >>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
