Ploticus extension
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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 version)
{{#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
}}
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{{#ploticus:
data: "Jack" 151 "Jim" 23 "Susan" 123 // render pie graph
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 }} |
Example 2 (dynamic version)
The chart shows the usage count of some articles. You can visit an article and see how the chart reflects the changed count.
{{#ploticus:
# get data from DPL query
#proc getdata
data:
{{UsageCount|African Union member states}}
// 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
}}
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{{#ploticus:
data: category = African Union member states"Cameroon" %COUNT% "Nigeria" %COUNT% "Somalia" %COUNT% "Sudan" %COUNT%
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 }} |
