Wikipedia plots and tables?

The universe of efficient ways to generate graphics for Wikipedia would be on Wikipedia talk pages somewhere. The universe of ways to make SVG graphics with R could be on topic here. They might intersect, and if other graphics formats that R can generate for Wikipedia are identified through appropriate research channels then we have something concrete to discuss regarding R (here). But however interesting I might find this (and I admit I do), fishing for Wikipedia tricks here does not seem on-topic to me. Perhaps someone will make a knitr interface to Wikipedia and wrap all this interfacing stuff up, but that will require research on Mediawiki input format requirements, for which development I would hope one would want a Mediawiki expert's help.

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Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:

Hi, Jeff:


On 2/23/2013 3:12 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:

If you look at this question objectively, Spencer, would you not

agree that this question is entirely off topic here?


       I can understand why you might think that.  However, I believe
this lists entertains questions dealing with interfacing R with other
software, e.g., R with Matlab.  I'm using R for this purpose, and it
seems to me to be a natural question to ask if there are other tools
for
this or other ways of using R for this.


      Beyond that, Wikipedia is one of the most heavily used web sites
on the Internet.  Any positive reference there to R helps expand the
recognition of R world wide.


       Where else might it be appropriate to ask such a question?


       Thanks for your reply.
       Spencer

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Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:

Hello, All:


        What facilities exist for plots and tables of data in the
standard MediaWiki software beyond the obvious standards?


        The standard MediaWiki tables and graphics capabilities seem

to

me to be rather clumsy, and I wonder if I'm missing some available
extensions?


        The standard MediaWiki tables are described in a Wikipedia
article on "Help:Table".  Wikimedia Foundation projects ask users to
upload photos and graphics Wikimedia Commons -- preferably in

scalable

vector graphics (*.svg) format.


        For additions I'm making to Wikimedia projects, I'm adding

two

things to the Ecdat package, now on R-Forge:


              (1) Economics data sets with documentation describing

how

to produce a *.svg file, which I then upload to Wikimedia Commons

and

use in Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and

Wikinews.

   The description of the contribution refers to Ecdat for details.


              (2) Functions to facilitate creating and updating data
objects being added.


        Are there better ways of producing quality graphics and maybe
interfacing R with MediaWiki projects?


        Thanks,
        Spencer Graves