I created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Data:Json:Wikicon, I took the icon filenames from Design/Wikifont gallery and surrounded them with details from themes/mediawiki/images.json in gerrit:188289.

@TrevorParscal thought perhaps @KMenger could talk to designers to fill in the semantics.

Sure. Happy to help with this.

May has a spreadsheet with a usage column.

I realise this is a work in progress, but I guess it's useful to have a list of the outstanding issues:

• There is no field for the "description" as shown at the top in the 'detailed' view of M19.
• Numerous icons cannot be displayed by my code. This is likely because they are misnamed, missing from OOjs-UI, or have their 'oojs-ui-pack' property set incorrectly: listNumbered, listBullet, outdent, indent, checkXXTickmark, paperclipNeedsName, randomize?, envelope, gear, stripeFIXME, tocFIXME, expandedFIXME
• "Ellipsis" is the correct word for a single set of three dots "…", there is no spelling error.
• lsg-group is missing on the majority of items.
• Unicode codepoint is not specified for any of them. In fact, I'm not even sure that OOjs-UI currently supports rendering with unicode.
• I have no idea what an "emblem" is.
• semantics is missing for almost all icons.
• I have no idea what the file refers to. Does it refer to the file in some DropBox I don't have access to?
• We are missing a field for which intentions are valid for this icon type.

May's spreadsheet has more info than Wikicon JSON file which I based on what OOjs UI actually has. (I found out about the spreadsheet after I worked on Wikicon, sorry!.) I dunno which should be authoritative right now but eventually a single JSON file in git should be the master.

In T89200#1140482, @werdna wrote:

• There is no field for the "description" as shown at the top in the 'detailed' view of M19.
• Numerous icons cannot be displayed by my code. This is likely because they are misnamed, missing from OOjs-UI, or have their 'oojs-ui-pack' property set incorrectly: listNumbered, listBullet, outdent, indent, checkXXTickmark, paperclipNeedsName, randomize?, envelope, gear, stripeFIXME, tocFIXME, expandedFIXME

For many of these OOjsUI has separate -ltr and -rtl images. I guess the icon needs that info. Sometimes English uses the rtl file, e.g

"previous": { "file": "move-rtl.svg" }

Maybe JamesF or matmarex can suggest how you can reproduce oojs-ui's logic.

• ["Ellipsis" is the correct word for a single set of three dots

Yes, but the file on commons is Elipses icon.svg. The commons icons don't matter for LSG.

• Unicode codepoint is not specified for any of them. In fact, I'm not even sure that OOjs-UI currently supports rendering with unicode.

The codepoints are in May's spreadsheet. The Wikifont build process (on github?) uses them.

• I have no idea what an "emblem" is.

The badge on e.g. editUndo-ltr.svg. WikiFont supports composing different elements by superimposing the emblem, see Reuse for consistency. I don't think the OOjs UI icons do, they use pre-built .svgs combining the icon and emblem.

• semantics is missing for almost all icons.

Use the "Usage" column from May's spreadsheet.

• I have no idea what the file refers to. Does it refer to the file in some DropBox I don't have access to?

The name on commons (with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: prepended ). Not relevant for LSG; I think the name plus whether or not -ltr or -rtl

• We are missing a field for which intentions are valid for this icon type.

oojs-ui's theme/mediawiki/images.json has this information, e.g.

"check": { "file": "check.svg", "variants": [ "constructive", "progressive" ] },

May's spreadsheet also has this information in the colored columns for a larger set of colors

"Progressive (blue) #347bff Constructive (green) #00af89 Destructive - Mild (yellow) #FFB50D Destructive - Medium (orange) #FF5D00 Destructive - Severe (red) #d11d13"

One or the other should be in the metadata.

I knew multiple sources of info about the icons would be a problem, I'm sorry I didn't engineer a solution.

I wrote a script today that merges those two data sets (you have to download the excel spreadsheet as a TSV and give the "Icon name" column that name, and copy the OOjs UI file over).

Nonetheless, it gives me a somewhat sane merged data set: https://gist.github.com/513e85f94754362a655f