“Animated MediaWiki”

Right now, there’s only this section at Wikimedia Commons for SVG animations.

However, what if someone were to create an extension of MediaWiki that would allow for user creation of SVG animations through wikitext?

With this hypothetical “Animated MediaWiki” extension, the wiki can also treat SVG animations like full text pages, with tables of content at the beginning of the animation that are linked to specific parts or intervals of the animation.

Raster images, other vector images, audio and even video can be embedded into the animations via wikitext.

Navigational templates can exist for navigation between separate animations for context; as usual, place them on the side or at the end of the animation.

Particular SVG animation loops or sprites, no matter how small, can also be chopped from the original larger animation and uploaded as separate generic animation piece/template that can be used in other animations.

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