CCiufo-WMF

Contribution to Charts

Hi Chris,

How are you doing? How's the charts project? I would like to contribute to the charts project with interactive chart editors and potentially the project in general.

Specifically, I was looking at the Band Members' timelines on band pages when I realized they are generated PNG images. I was wondering why you don't use SVG instead. After some digging, I found out that they are made with the EasyTimeline extension, which you plan to replace with a new Chart extension.

I was thinking that for this specific use case, I could create a web app where you enter the band members and years in a visual editor, see the preview right away, and export the SVG code or the metadata in the format you need.

About myself, I'm a big fan of SVG, published a site called SVG-Tutorial.com and I like making interactive web apps. On the other hand I never contributed to open source in any major way, so I'm not sure how this works. I think this could be a good starting exercise.

So what do you think?

Thanks,

Hunor HunorMarton (talk) 17:37, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @HunorMarton, sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I'm glad to hear you're interested in contributing to the charts project.

We are not currently planning to replace the EasyTimeline extension with the Chart extension, but it may be a potential future enhancement (see phab:T137291). Charts are currently being built with Apache eCharts so we are not constructing the SVG ourselves right now. If you're interested to read more about how the extension is architected, please see the Architectural Decision Records. Maybe that will give you a sense of how things are set up and where you could contribute. CCiufo-WMF (talk) 17:22, 7 November 2024 (UTC)