Ploticus extension

Ploticus Tool

PLOTICUS is a free softwarere package for creating plots and charts.

Ploticus Extension

The Mediawiki Extension:Ploticus allows to embed Ploticus into a Mediawiki installation. When using the Ploticus Extension you have to deliver a script which contains the data on which the chart shall be based.

This is where DPL comes into the game: DPL can be used to extract that data from information contained in the articles of your wiki. For that purpose we made a small modification to the Ploticus Extension: Our modified version can take data not only from a hand-written script but also from the output of a DPL script.

Our version of the MediaWiki Ploticus Extension is contained in the Download Archive of DPL.

Example 1 (static vesrion)

{{#ploticus: # get data from DPL query #proc getdata data: "Jack" 151 "Jim" 23 "Susan" 123 // render pie graph #proc pie datafield: 2 labelfmtstring: @@1\n@@2\n@@PCT% labelmode: line+label center: 3 3 radius: 1.1 colors: dullyellow drabgreen pink labelfarout: 1.2 explode: 0 0.2 0 0 }}

{{#ploticus: get data from DPL query proc getdata data: "Jack" 151 "Jim" 23 "Susan" 123 // render pie graph proc pie datafield: 2 labelfmtstring: @@1\n@@2\n@@PCT% labelmode: line+label outlinedetails: color=blue center: 3 3 radius: 1.1 colors: dullyellow drabgreen pink powderblue lavender labelfarout: 1.2 explode: 0 0.2 0 0 }}