Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multimedia and Commons/Ease the creation of diagrams/Proposal
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- Problem: Create a diagram in Wikipedia is tedious. You have to basically create an SVG file. It makes updates on the diagrams difficult. SVG code is quite verbose.
- Proposed solution: Use a high-level language for describing diagrams. For instance PGF/TikZ which is the somehow main stream solution for making figures/diagrams in a LaTEX document.
- Who would benefit: Any contributor that wants to create/update a diagram/picture for a Wikipedia article.
- More comments: Supporting PGF/TikZ language would be in some sense in the same spirit that the already existing support of Lilypond language (for music notation). The benefit of PGF/TikZ over other diagram languages is that it also offers support for LaTEX formulas directly. Of course, we should discuss the choice of the supported language. We could also offer the possibility to describe a diagram in many languages (PGF/TikZ, graphviz, etc.). In case this wish is selected, I would be glad to participate to development.
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- Proposer: Fschwarzentruber (talk) 18:37, 5 February 2023 (UTC)