User:Reaper35/Ideas

Some good ideas, I think:

• Wiki Loves Cities & Wiki Loves Streets

  An competition in order of Wiki Loves Earth & Co.

  It targets to preserve the view & life of cities.

  In this case best would be if every city & street will be photographed every year again.

  • Wiki Loves Cities:

  Overview like pictures of cities, skylines, parks and public places.

  • Wiki Loves Streets:

  Inspired by Googles Street View every street (not every house) of an city should be photographed.

• Commons Archive

  Pictures which where deleted because of current copyright laws should be marked as "copyright expiring in <year>" - if possible.

  These photos and graphics would then be available again for Wikipedia in some years (up to decades, unfortunately).

  This should be possible because - afaik - deleted files weren't completely from the servers. Otherwise we could set up an Archive Server for just these pictures.

  (To reduce the work for future authors, we should maybe only archive more or less notable files or sort/tag them by notability.)

  (This idea was suggested some days ago, too: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey#Dark archive. (I had this idea already like a year ago, damn..))

• User-to-User-Chat / Instant Messaging

  Using Jabber/XMPP.

  As server ejabberd and maybe JSXC on client side. (Liste von XMPP-Clients)

  (The idea was - as mentioned by a new user - to achieve a better communication. And it could, maybe, also help to acquire new authors for Wikipedia. May be?)

  See also: Extension:MediaWikiChat.

• 3D-Pedia / 3D-Data

  → User:Reaper35/3D-Data

  Allow the presentation of 3D data (directly) in articles using WebGL.

  3D objects could (or should primarily) be created using photogrammetry which could end up in highly detailed 3D objects and point clouds. It would even work for older PCs.

  (I was not the first one with this idea..: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey#3D models on Wikimedia Commons)

  Could be used for:

  • Archaeological objects like temples, historical buildings, archaeological sites in general, sculptures and similar
  • Technical visuals
  • Maybe also in combination with animations. (Would be hard to do, but an idea.)
  • As Volume Renderer, but even much more complicated to program / high system requirements.

  • Biology
  • Medical visuals

  • 3D vectorial data as wire-frame models. Used for:

  • 3D wire-frame models of technique and similar
  • mathematical objects like surfaces

  • Sites viewable as 360° panorama photographs of sites (like Google Street View)
  • ...

  Some other notable Examples:

  • 100.000 Stars (seems it doesn't work with Firefox)

  Examples could be found e.g. on the website of Sketchfab (uses OSG.JS).

  (See also: User:Theredmonkey/Why we are lacking a 3D strategy.)

• Easy way for simple/smaller objects:

  360° turn around picture viewer.

Some more ideas:

• Wiki-Editor with Syntax Highlighting

  Already exists as WikiEd, but could be done a bit better as I think. Also Extension:CodeMirror. (This idea took part already on many other sites, e.g. on Community Tech and de:Wikipedia:Technische Wünsche.)

• Filterable Lists

  We often have long lists with many columns, sometimes the lists were split because of two many columns.

  The lists itself are nice, but also nearly useless (or only usable with much effort) if you search something with special requirements.

  These lists should be filterable (JS based).

  (In future these lists should be created with data from Wikidata. So the lists itself might change, so we should maybe wait.)

• "Augmented Reality"-like Viewer

  A panorama viewer for pictures from skyscrapers and smaller towers with Wikipedia articles about objects highlighted.

  It should replace an outdated version which was or is(?) available on WMF Tool Labs (and Toolserver before).

• Dynamic/Interactive Math Graphs (rough idea)

  Creating dynamic math graphs (like Extension:Graph) using HTML5 (e.g. Canvas;).

  Just an short idea. To be rethought.