Wiki Infographics

Wiki Infographics is a platform to leverage structured information within Wikimedia projects to create informative and visually engaging infographics in both fixed and dynamic formats, under an open license. It is available at https://infographics.toolforge.org.

The tool is composed of a Django backend and a React frontend, both on this repository.

Running locally

To run the tool locally, have NodeJS, Python, rsvg-convert and ffmpeg installed. You need two terminals.

In one of them, run the frontend

npm install
npm run dev

And open your browser at http://localhost:5173/web/infographics/.

For the backend, run

python3 manage.py runserver

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Toolforge deployment

Since we need apt packages we are using Toolforge's custom builds feature so that we can have ffmpeg and rsvg-convert utilities installed.

On toolforge, run the following to clean build space, build the image, run migrations and start the server.

toolforge build clean -y
toolforge build start https://github.com/wikimediabrasil/wiki_infographics
toolforge jobs run --image tool-infographics/tool-infographics:latest --command "migrate" --wait --mount=all migrate
toolforge webservice buildservice restart --mount all

We are using --mount=all because we're still using SQLite and we need a directory to store the videos.

Set environment variables with toolforge envvars create <VARIABLE> <VALUE>.

Running locally with buildpack

This is the way to build the image locally:

sudo pack build --builder tools-harbor.wmcloud.org/toolforge/heroku-builder:22 --buildpack heroku/nodejs --buildpack heroku/python --buildpack heroku/procfile --buildpack fagiani/apt infographics
sudo docker run -e PORT=8000 -e DEBUG=True -e SECRET_KEY=123 -p 8000:8000 -it  --entrypoint 'bash' infographics

Inside the container, you can run migrate or web. The binaries are not directly available to the path, these fixes are necessary when entering bash:

source /layers/fagiani_apt/apt/.profile.d/000_apt.sh
cp -r /layers/fagiani_apt/apt/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*/* /layers/fagiani_apt/apt/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

Then it is possible to run web and have ffmpeg and rsvg-convert installed.