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Bug#467340: ITP: mediawiki-silva -- mediawiki extension for silva



Package: wnpp
Owner: Loic Dachary (OuoU) <loic@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : mediawiki-silva
  Version         : 1.2.0
  Upstream Author : Loic Dachary
* URL or Web page : http://silva.dachary.org/
* License         : GNU GPLv3
  Description     : mediawiki extension for silva

What is silva ? 

 Read a skill list from a CSV file and draw
 a 2D tree from it. Each skill is represented exactly
 once. The order of skills is preserved, from the trunk up.
 The color of each tree section goes from green to red depending
 on the frequency of the skill.

A preliminary version of the mediawiki extension can be experimented
at:

http://silva.dachary.org/mediawiki/index.php/Silva

The easiest way for people to experiment with a visualisation software
is thru a wiki. And mediawiki is universaly accepted. Therefore it
makes sense to create a mediawiki extension as the first silva based
application. 

The packaging of the mediawiki extension and the tests were surprisingly
tricky to get right. Because there is no mediawiki extension debian 
package so far. And because there is very little testing for extensions.
Thanks to the help of people at irc.freenode.net#mediawiki, I was able
to find my way and discover parserTests and installExtensions, both 
fairly new to most mediawiki developers.



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