The WikiProject Med has created a mirror of OurWorlInData and a extension to show the content in Wikipedia articles. We have discussed at Basque Wikipedia about this, and we would like to have it deployed in our wiki, so we can start to add interactive maps and graphs.
The discussion is here: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic:Wr0cgff9sat6mv3k. It was open for two weeks and no negative votes were added.
Thanks!
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T363202 Improve OurWorldInData popup gadget | |||
| Resolved | Theklan | T303853 Enable OurWorldInDataMirror extension at euwiki | |||
| Duplicate | None | T324988 Deploy Extension:OurWorldInData to Basque Wikipedia | |||
| Declined | None | T324989 Application Security Review Request : OurWorldInData |
This is blocked on completing various reviews, please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment if you are interested.
Also related: T301044: Request creation of OurWorldinData VPS project
It will cost us a few thousand to take the extension through this process. Will need to figure out the financials from our end.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Parent_tasks_and_subtasks ; see the Task Graph section above - thanks!
If we set it up such that it shows a still image from Commons initially. And than when clicked to activate they get a notice that says "External data source. This content is hosted externally, so enabling it shares your IP address and other data to the graph provider." With a "Cancel" and "I understand" button. And only once they click "I understand" it shows the functional graphing tool. Would that be sufficient? Basically similar to what we have on WikiVoyage for the external overlays for the maps. See https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cranbrook as an example.
This would be extremely useful and save a lot of time of many editors while keeping things more up-to-date and adding support to the interactive features that WP currently misses compared to OWID and which can be very useful.
Can't believe this is already possible to some degree and this issue hasn't gotten further in 2 years. Please add it asap and a small prompt asking the user to confirm to load data from OWID would be enough. Logged in users and app-users could have a setting "show charts embedded from OWID" or similar so they only need to confirm it once.
I think it may also be possible to mirror the interactive charts altogether and then embed the charts from there so that such prompts are not needed. Isn't that possible since the data is CCBY/CC0 and the tool OWID uses open source? Issues that are close to readily implementable that would bring this much of noticeable improvement to Wikipedia really are rare.
Comments which ignore all technical issues and request "asap" do not help anyone, I'm afraid...
WMF has enough resources to put enough effort behind this, for things to be resolved. The last comments and this issue in general didn't get much of a response. Third, from the last few comments, it seems a current issue is with loading the data from OWID and I named two technical methods this could be solved. Regarding loading charts from the mirror: since such a mirror still exist, does it still load data from OWID or why the idea about a prompt asking the user to confirm loading from an external site?
Could you please name the remaining issues here? To me it's unclear why exactly this hasn't been implemented by now / where the process is at right now.
We are working on a "Consent pop up" and will hopefully have it ready in a couple of weeks for further discussion.
We just deployed the "consent pop up" approach to Basque Wikipedia. The first graph is live here: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haurdunaldi#Nerabezaroa
The main problem here is that, as we load OWID directly, we can't change the code, so it does only work in English, which should be avoided if we want to promote this solution.
Just saw the announcement of the Basque Wikipedia about this new feature. It looks great, and this is how many wikipedians envision our future Wikimedia interface if we really want Wikimedia projects to exist in 10 years time.
As mentioned in the previous comment: the fact that these minoritized linguistic communities are doing such a big effort to implement new tech to thrive in readers and quality, but that the result is an only-English interactive gadget, is still a hard pillow to swallow...
After so so many years it is amazing to make progress. We definitely need to figure out translation next. I know it is on OWIDs list of things to do. Ideally we figure it out with them and we both benefit.
I have added an example with two graphs inside an infobox. I think the result is also interesting, even if the button doesn't load with the same shape.
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berotegi-efektuko_gas#Inplikatutako_gasak