Cornelius +1

Thank you for your great work, and I am looking forward to using it on
Wikipedia.

Best,
Samat


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Cornelius Kibelka <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow, this looks amazing! I'm looking forward to use it other Wikis,
> especially Wikipedia and Meta.
>
> Thank you for your great work!
>
> On 15 March 2016 at 12:27, Magnus Manske <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Great work!
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:13 AM Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The quest to bring maps to Wikipedia continues:
>> > * Kartographer has launched for WikiVoyage
>> > * Julien Girault will help maps with his UI expertise
>> > * Talk to us at the FreeNode IRC channel #wikipedia-interactive
>> >
>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Kartographer
>> >
>> > Last week we enabled Kartographer extension for Wikivoyage sites,
>> allowing
>> > users to add maps to wiki pages without any additional wmflabs and
>> > JavaScript tricks.  Now you can simply add a <mapframe> or <maplink> to
>> a
>> > wiki page, or even use the Visual Editor to insert a map. Additionally,
>> you
>> > can:
>> >
>> > * add markers and polygons visually
>> > * edit geojson and see how it changes the map on each keystroke
>> > * add auto-numbered markers (either numbers or letters), and have
>> multiple
>> > counters
>> > * have multiple "groups" of markers/polygons and showing them on the
>> same
>> > map or on separate maps (e.g. all food and all drink maps and one
>> combined
>> > map)
>> > * markers can be of any color, 3 sizes, and contain many different icons
>> > * markers and polygons can be clicked and will show popups with wiki
>> text
>> > and images
>> > * very fast full screen popup map
>> >
>> > Feedback: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps
>> > Bugs & TODOs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/
>> > All maps-related tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/
>> >
>> > == What's next? ==
>> > There will be plenty of cleanup and polishing work to make Kartographer
>> > work seamlessly. We will need to address the missing functionality
>> reported
>> > to us by the community, and help migrate existing wmflabs-based maps to
>> the
>> > new platform. Lastly, VE editing will need some more work to become
>> > indispensable.
>> >
>> > Yet, our site is still set on the bigger target - maps for all of
>> > Wikipedia. For that we are waiting for more hardware, plus we will need
>> to
>> > improve our static maps service to be able to handle wiki-load.
>> >
>> > Hardware task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125126
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you Max Semenik, Ed Sanders, Alex Kosiaris, Brandon Black, Chris
>> > Koerner, Chris Steipp, Tomasz Finc, and Wes Moran for making this
>> possible.
>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l>
>>
>
>
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