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[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong
This is exciting -- let's make sure we capture any usage requirements for
the upcoming Graphs modernization work so we can have these features built
in again soon!

-- brooke

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 7:43?AM Felipe Schenone <schenonef@gmail.com> wrote:

> Amazing work, James and Galder!
>
> Today I was bold, made it fully multilingual and generalized it so that it
> can be easily installed in any wiki (Wikimedia or not).
> See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:OWID for the documentation
> and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-OWID.js for the code
> and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template_gadgets for more context
>
> Galder, perhaps you'd like to update the usage at the Basque Wikipedia
> (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:OWID) so as to help
> centralize and coordinate our efforts?
> Some technical notes:
> - I simplified the code considerably using the pre-built methods
> OO.ui.alert and OO.ui.confirm rather than those complicated (and
> unnecessary, in this case) OOUI classes. I hope you like it.
> - I wrapped the code with an "OWID" object to keep it out of the global
> space and make sure the 'oojs-ui-windows' dependency is always loaded.
> - The localized messages should probably be moved to their own JSON file
> and loaded from there, but I'm not sure about the best way to do that while
> keep it template gadgets centralized at MediaWiki.org, and possibly having
> the strings translated by translatewiki.net. Perhaps we can set up a call
> to discuss some options?
>
> PS, I enabled the template on the Spanish Wikipedia (see
> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:OWID) but we're having some local
> trouble with template gadgets so it's not working right now. I should be
> able to fix it in the next few hours.
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 6:34?PM Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga <
> galder158@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, James, for all the work done,
>> We now have 14 articles with interactive graphs, as we are exploring this
>> new feature:
>> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategoria:Our_World_in_Data_grafikoak_dituzten_artikuluak.
>> The deployment is pretty easy, it took around 10 minutes with only four
>> things: a template, a css, a js and a gadget definition. This is so simple,
>> that I think it should be implemented by everyone.
>>
>> We should think on how we make it multilingual.
>>
>> Thanks again to all the members of WikiProject Med for the step forward.
>>
>> Galder
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 16, 2024 11:14 PM
>> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are
>> doing it wrong
>>
>> We have Interactive graphs from OWID working on Basque Wikipedia,
>> following a consent popup.
>>
>> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haurdunaldi#Nerabezaroa
>>
>> Still need to figure out a way to make them multilingual.
>>
>> --
>> James Heilman
>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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