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[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data | Tabular Data ]] is now available on Wikimedia project. As part of the Q2 goals we want to announce its availability to use in projects. The plan: * @Yurik will write up a technical description of the feature for the wikitech-l mailing list * @CKoerner_WMF will draft a blog post and work with the team and Comms for publishing Points to cover: * What is this new feature? * How do I use it? ** This is arguably a more technical feature, so discuss its use in templates and lua modules * How is it separate from Wikidata? * Examples of uses ** An interactive weather history viewer - try selecting ranges at the bottom, switch to Fahrenheit, or mouse over for info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart ** This is a simple historical heatmap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_heatmap ** And the same data shown as a well established enwiki climate table using a lua script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo ** All above pages are generated from a single data page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/…/Data:Weat…/New_York_City.tab If the response is strong we might even write up a Village Pump (Technical where available) post to share. The related Maps Data functionality will be mentioned, but highlighted in a future communication.

[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data | Tabular Data ]] is now available on Wikimedia project. As part of the Q2 goals we want to announce its availability to use in projects. The plan: * @Yurik will write up a technical description of the feature for the wikitech-l mailing list * @CKoerner_WMF will draft a blog post and work with the team and Comms for publishing Points to cover: * What is this new feature? * How do I use it? ** This is arguably a more technical feature, so discuss its use in templates and lua modules * How is it separate from Wikidata? * Examples of uses ** An interactive weather history viewer - try selecting ranges at the bottom, switch to Fahrenheit, or mouse over for info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart ** This is a simple historical heatmap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_heatmap ** And the same data shown as a well established enwiki climate table using a lua script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo ** All above pages are generated from a single data page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab If the response is strong we might even write up a Village Pump (Technical where available) post to share. The related Maps Data functionality will be mentioned, but highlighted in a future communication.

[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data | Tabular Data ]] is now available on Wikimedia project. As part of the Q2 goals we want to announce its availability to use in projects. The plan: * @Yurik will write up a technical description of the feature for the wikitech-l mailing list * @CKoerner_WMF will draft a blog post and work with the team and Comms for publishing Points to cover: * What is this new feature? * How do I use it? ** This is arguably a more technical feature, so discuss its use in templates and lua modules * How is it separate from Wikidata? * Examples of uses ** An interactive weather history viewer - try selecting ranges at the bottom, switch to Fahrenheit, or mouse over for info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart ** This is a simple historical heatmap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_heatmap ** And the same data shown as a well established enwiki climate table using a lua script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo ** All above pages are generated from a single data page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/…wiki/Data:Weat…her/New_York_City.tab If the response is strong we might even write up a Village Pump (Technical where available) post to share. The related Maps Data functionality will be mentioned, but highlighted in a future communication.