Dear all, I'm writing to introduce Hiruwiki, a brand-new system for interactive visualization of math and geometry: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hiruwiki.
25 years ago, Wikipedia was born and totally changed how the world accessed knowledge. However, most of our efforts have been centered in a text-based encyclopedia, leaving other ways of knowledge behind. The Basque Wikimedians User Group has been working on interactive and multimedia features in the last years, from a huge pedagogic video project (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza/Ikusgela) to early adopting projects like OWID (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:OWID), VideoWiki (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VideoWiki) or Calculator (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Calculator). Articles about math concepts are normally presented only by text, sometimes small illustrations, which makes them complex to understand. Learners are normally more interested in visualizations like GeoGebra or videos where the concepts are explained. With Hiruwiki, a pun between wiki and the Basque world for triangle, hiruki, we are adding some of the features that projects like GeoGebra have into Wikipedia. Using the technology from Template Gadgets allows to create independent modules that will explain different concepts, in a safe and scalable way. Currently Hiruwiki has 25 modules, from how to explain percents to angles of triangles, and from probability to how the area of a circle is calculated. Each of the modules can be translated into any other language and is ready to use. You only need someone with interface rights in your wiki to start using them. The project was developed during the Northwestern Europe Hackathon, and some internationalization can happen during the Hackathon in Milano. You can see it at work at https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hiruwiki, or in any of the 50 articles at Basque Wikipedia using the technology: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategoria:Hiruwiki. Please let me know if you are interested in making this available in your wiki, translating it (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420204), improving the code or adding some new modules. Best, Galder Gonzalez Basque Wikimedians User Group
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