Talk:Visual Story Spore

Update of scope

As the creator of the first Visual Story, I have taken the freedom to update (and broaden) the description of this Spore a bit. I want to try to find some time and energy to write down some notes about my thoughts around this first attempt, and to create a few other examples, but this month June I will still be pretty occupied with other things in work and life. FWIW, I think this format should definitely not be restricted to niche or hyper-local topics. It can totally be super mainstream and hyper-global topics too. Think for instance a gallery with a short introduction to all the films in which Charlie Chaplin has been involved, showing the public domain films if we have them on Commons. Or think photos and videos of protests around the world in response to the death of George Floyd... For me, the most important thing is the new format of 'audiovisual' emphasis - that something is told or explained in multimedia, mainly in large images and videos and sounds; not in long-form text as on Wikipedia. I think adding visualizations (maps, timelines, graphs)... would also be great. I'm also not sure about the 'story' name, because I actually think you can be extremely factual in such a format. Well, I'm sure we can explore and rename as we go :-) I have also placed a similar comment in the Village Pump. Cheers! Spinster (talk) 17:54, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Scroll Spore?

I was thinking something like "Scroll Spore" might be an apt metaphor, given the analogy to ancient illuminuated manuscripts, and also the modern web practice of image-heavy scrolling-driven pages such as those of the New York Times.--Pharos (talk) 12:52, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

+1

Nice idea. Sounds good and interesting metaphor. It could be nice to have option for page to just scrolls side-ways also, rather then vertically to support different scripts and ways of creating narrative flow *(maybe endless loop ;-p)...

One thing I hate how these endless-scrolls get abused to preload tons of content in RAM and makes weaker machines suffer, so in implementation this should be avoided by all means. Zblace (talk) 07:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikispore Day presentation

Wanted to share this, probably we should display it on the front side of the page when PDF thumbnails are enabled: .--Pharos (talk) 23:31, 24 August 2020 (UTC)