Yaron Koren is working on a BPMN extension to MediaWiki, and just presented his work <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PlYzjQylto> at SMWCon Fall 2019
Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://freephile.org On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:08 PM Mukunda Modell <mmod...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I have often thought of extending visual editor and found minimal > documentation to get me started. Thanks for the pointers Marielle, and > thanks Alain for starting the thread. > Please let us know if you have any success, maybe this could be the > beginning of some useful documentation around extending VE. > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:24 AM Marielle Volz <mv...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > You might want to check out the VE parts of the graph extension. It > sounds > > like a good analogue for what you want to do, where there's a pop-up to > > edit the JSON (as well as a visual component) that is interpreted as a > Vega > > graph, which is an external library (https://vega.github.io/vega/). Code > > for the VE parts here: > > > > > https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Graph/tree/master/modules/ve-graph > > . > > > > The documentation for VE is largely auto-generated, i.e. for > ContentAction: > > https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/#!/api/ve.ui.ContentAction > > (which > > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Gadgets/Add_a_tool#Create_and_register_command > > links > > to if you haven't seen that page yet) > > > > There's also #wikimedia-editing on irc although it tends to be a bit dead > > as well, but still probably better than #mediawiki :). > > > > Cheers, > > Marielle > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:38 PM Alain PERRY <ala...@franceactive.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I was sent here from the #mediawiki IRC channel, I hope this is indeed > > the > > > correct list to write to and ask you to please forgive me if it is not. > > > > > > First, a bit about myself: I'm no real developer, just a tech-savvy guy > > > trying to build a wiki to document my employer's company inner > workings. > > > This last bit means documenting any piece of information we handle and > > our > > > business processes in doing so. > > > > > > After testing a few wiki engines, I came to the conclusion that > mediawiki > > > with the cargo extension was what I was looking for. I also built a > small > > > extension to allow inclusion and edition of BPMN diagrams with the > > > https://bpmn.io library. All in all, this is pretty basic. > > > > > > Then I came to the realization that if I wanted any lambda-user to be > > > willing to contribute to the wiki content, I needed the Visual Editor. > > > Deploying it was easy enough, and everything seems to be working fine > at > > > the moment. > > > > > > I however feel I should make it possible to include a BPMN diagram from > > > the VE toolbar. Ideally, this will take the form of a "popup" that will > > > include the bpmn.io modeler to edit the diagram. However, in order to > > > achieve this goal, I have a whole damn lot to learn and to experiment > > with > > > about VE. > > > > > > So I thought I should start with something a little humbler: a button > > that > > > would just include some basic XML in the page (a special page already > > > allows editing that part of the page, so this would already be > > convenient, > > > though far from perfect). Using the gadgets example from the > > documentation > > > on the mediawiki wiki, I'm able to insert content into the page. But > that > > > content is escaped if it includes XML and I have no idea from the API > doc > > > how to include something less basic than mere text (or than a given > > > template, since the example actually shows how to do that). > > > > > > What I'm actually getting at is this: would someone with good knowledge > > of > > > the API and some good old patience be willing to "tutor" me by giving > > > pointers where I need them ? > > > > > > My first technical question would be this: I understand that my gadget > > can > > > register a ve.ui.Command, that will in turn call a method on an > > > ve.ui.Action object. I guess I should stick to the ContentAction one. > But > > > I'm not sure what the "content" parameter should contain if given an > > array. > > > Is there, somewhere, some documentation I can read on this? > > > > > > Thanks a bunch for any help. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > -- > > > Alain Perry > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
