[Maps-l] graphs, maps, and MW extensions

Per ErikM's suggestion, posting it here. http://graphtest.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page has a preview of the graph extension . The extension is already in production, but will only be enabled for private wikis (zero & fundraising) until we resolve secur

[Maps-l] Announcing the launch of OSM Maps for Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation has implemented a new vector tile service Kartotherian (Mapbox+Mapnik stack) and launched an experimental tile and static maps service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org. Using this service, you can browse and embed map tiles

Re: [Maps-l] [OSM-dev] Announcing the launch of OSM Maps for Wikipedia

t; <http://wikivoyage.org>* (referrer header must be either missing or set > to these values) but we hope to open it up to Wikipedia traffic if we see > enough use. > > What's needed to open the new map service to Wikipedia itself? > > Alex > > > On Th

Re: [Maps-l] Maps on Wikipedia

You can already create any tool in wmf labs, and use it as an iframe into any wiki project. This is exactly what the existing tools do (at this point, most of them don't use the new maps service, but they hopefully will very soon). O

Re: [Maps-l] [OSM-dev] Announcing the launch of OSM Maps for Wikipedia

l atlases - but let's get the world >> right now working first :) >> >> Cheers and look forward to seeing maps.wikimedia.org progress in the >> months to come! >> >> On 17 September 2015 at 19:46, Yuri Astrakhan >> wrote: >> > Wikimedia Fou

[Maps-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

Wikimedia Foundation is offering grants for technical projects until September 29th. If you think you can build something crazy cool for Maps, now is the time. Less than one week left to apply, up to $30,000 for a person or a small team. Maps project c

[Maps-l] 3 maps-related proposals

Folks, 3 out of 11 tech proposals are for maps! I say maps are important, eh? :) Please evaluate and comment - what does the maps community think about them. Thanks! Wiki Needs Pictures Developing a map to show entities around the wo

Re: [Maps-l] Status of WIWOSM?

Tim, do you have any thoughts on how we could bring WIWOSM capabilities to production (Kartotherian)? Also, I posted some thoughts on what functionality the tag could support within Wikipedia articles. Thanks! On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:44

Re: [Maps-l] Where to find maps.wikimedia.org on ru.wikipedia.org?

Federico, my appologies from not seeing it earlier. GeoHack (which is what uses maps from ruwiki), pulls templates and javascript from ruwiki, and uses it to show the map. So for example, when you click on the geo coordinates in the upper right corner of this article: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Maps-l] Fwd: Generate location maps dynamically, producing actual images

Federico, thanks, see how this can already be done via the tag - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120809#1862004 On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I can't believe there isn't a report for this, anyway I filed > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120809 > > Blocks:

Re: [Maps-l] Fwd: Generate location maps dynamically, producing actual images

Dec 8, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > Federico, thanks, see how this can already be done via the tag - > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120809#1862004 > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > > > wrote: > >> &

Re: [Maps-l] New version of Wikipedia-map

Tim, I was very excited to get your email! I somehow missed Simon's efforts, and I think it would be a great idea for all of us to sync up (perhaps via hangout?) I have recently submitted Kartographer extension (code

Re: [Maps-l] New version of Wikipedia-map

Anyone who wants to participate in this discussion is welcome to join the hangout. How about next Monday, December 21, 19:00 UTC / 2:00pm EST / 11:00 am Pacific On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Tim Alder wrote: > Hello Yuri, > if you look on the updated version of the map from Simon[1] > you

Re: [Maps-l] Where to find maps.wikimedia.org on ru.wikipedia.org?

Awesome enwiki next? :))) On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > The Italian Wikipedia has just adopted maps.wikimedia.org for GeoHack too > (after some confusion on its beta/production status). > Example: > https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=it&

Re: [Maps-l] New version of Wikipedia-map

...@wikimedia.org On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Anyone who wants to participate in this discussion is welcome to join the > hangout. > > How about next Monday, December 21, 19:00 UTC / 2:00pm EST / 11:00 am > Pacific > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:14

Re: [Maps-l] New version of Wikipedia-map

re two relevant OSM wiki links, not sure how up to date they are, just for background or information. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WIWOSM ### Yuri Astrakhan http://vem.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page ### Blake Girardot http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia Is there ou

[Maps-l] Deadline for Jerusalem hackathon scholarships is today

**If you are a community developer interested in working on maps:** The Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016> (Jerusalem, March 31 - April 3) focuses on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/ projects. There is some budget for

[Maps-l] State of Wikipedia Maps

The Discovery's maps team would like to share the progress we have been making, and our future goals. * Kartographer extension is getting closer to being deployed. It will allow editors to insert a map and add article specific data into wiki pages. Kartographer has a neat Visual Editor interface t

[Maps-l] Wiki maps news and updates

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 exten

Re: [Maps-l] Wiki maps news and updates

cement in Feb - > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2016-February/001464.html > > Is modes option removed now? I see no change when I try modes here - > http://vem3.wmflabs.org/wiki/Kn/ಹಾಸನ_ತಾಲೂಕುಗಳು > > > cheers, > yogi > > > On 03/15/2016 05:43 AM, Yuri Astrakh

Re: [Maps-l] Lcoator-tool

Simon, have you seen the Wikimaps Waprer project? Sounds they are trying to do something similar with the historic maps: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps I hope we will be able to store commons metadata (like coordi

[Maps-l] Maps search for Wikipedia

Maps folks, I would like to start a discussion on the best way to search in a map. Daniel Schwen's WikiMiniAtlas has a similar algorithm, but we might need to expand or rethink it for a more general use case. We have an Elastic Search cluster, which has some geo-search capability, but that might no

[Maps-l] Maps are live on Wikidata & Commons

Enjoy , , or use it directly in JavaScript - maps are now available on Wikidata & Commons. Don't add it to all templates all at once, let us enjoy a peaceful weekend without server meltdowns :) Help page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer _

Re: [Maps-l] GeoShapes service

gt; > -Simone > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > This week we enabled geo-shapes service (non-production only). Given > > Wikidata ID(s), maps service can give you associated geoshapes (as > > topojson). Moreover, you can actually g

Re: [Maps-l] (no subject)

Hi Abdeali. We have a geodata search that you might find useful - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData - it should allow you to find at least some of the information via mediawiki api. Ideally, i hope we will be able to integrate geospatial search into wikidata query service, as that sh

Re: [Maps-l] (no subject)

, longitude. I can't seem to > be able to find any API method to get the country and city of a given > latitude, longitude in Extension:GeoData. > Am I understanding this wrong ? Have I misread/understood something ? > > Regards > Abdeali JK > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3

[Maps-l] Our Wikipedia + OSM maps presentation video & slides

Julien, Max, and I did a 20 min presentation at the State of the Map US conference in Seattle: Slides & Video: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10D8Q0w8gwMqOvciDDFZSBuRKxFpGsdwM0D5QcBFmTyA/edit#slide=id.p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kscsp0YS7nw&index=35&list=PLqjPa29lMiE3eR-gK80irr3xdUiR

[Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Seems we have no more blockers for tag on all Wikipedias. We will enable it tomorrow, Sept 1st. tag allows editors to add a link to a popup map, complete with extra geojson overlay data. See help page for instructions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#.3Cmaplink.3E Sub

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Have you spoken to Comms as to getting a blog post for it? > > Seddon > On 31 Aug 2016 21:21, "Yuri Astrakhan" wrote: > >> Seems we have no more blockers for tag on all Wikipedias. We >> will enable it tomorrow, Sept 1st. tag allows editors to add a >> link to

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Guillaume, sorry, we ran into some new issues when we tried to deploy it. Will try again soon. On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 4:19 AM Guillaume Allegre wrote: > Le 2016-08-31, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit : > > Seems we have no more blockers for tag on all Wikipedias. We > will > > enable

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Le 2016-09-05, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit : > > Guillaume, sorry, we ran into some new issues when we tried to deploy it. > > Will try again soon. > > No need to worry, and no hurry. I was just asking, relating to your > announce. > > Thanks a lot for your whole work. &g

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Forgot to mention - clicking on a state shows Governor's name, and a picture of their face... On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:05 PM Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > And its on!is live everywhere. Formal announcement is > coming soon. > > Here's a fun little sample - a Wikidata

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

se this with KML > data? > > On Friday, September 9, 2016, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > >> Forgot to mention - clicking on a state shows Governor's name, and a >> picture of their face... >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:05 PM Yuri Astrakhan >> wrote: &

[Maps-l] Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service

Dear community, this week we enabled support on all Wikipedia and sister projects. This means that now an article can have a link to a map, and that map may contain highlighted regions and popups with information. [1],[3] Our next step is to add an informational sidebar to the map, similar to wh

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

> > Is it a definitive choice to implement but not in > Wikipedias ? > It's just the first step. We want to enable everywhere, but we don't want it to crash our servers. So we need to see how our infrastructure behaves as more users start using it. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/

Re: [Maps-l] Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service

s are maybe odd, but I plan to largely advertise these new > features > towards the french WP community. I would like to be able to explain if > sometimes > it doesn't work well at once, in order to not discourage people who would > like to try > their first edit. > > >

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

1) yep - just keep "ExternalData" elements at the top of the json, e.g. [ {"type":"ExternalData", ...}, {"type":"Feature", ...}, ... ] 2) yep. There was a bug in the previous releases that has been fixed now (its on the deployment train, should be available everywhere today or tomorrow). You can

Re: [Maps-l] to be enabled tomorrow

The mechanism confuses everyone. Just ignore it, and change what you need - those who understands it will help fix the problems. On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:32 PM Guillaume Allegre < allegre.guilla...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 2016-09-22, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit : > > 1) yep - just kee

[Maps-l] Maps, community, and enabling disruptive tech

TLDR: How fast should new content (maps) features be rolled out, and how ready should they be? Constant but smaller improvements seems better. As we gradually roll out maps to wider and wider audience, I would like to get some feedback on how we approach new feature roll-outs. Frankly, WMF has bo

Re: [Maps-l] Maps, community, and enabling disruptive tech

from the start, but possibly less needed (miss the mark) and would require considerable resources to rework? On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:17 PM Guillaume Allegre wrote: > Le 2016-11-05, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit : > > TLDR: How fast should new content (maps) features be rolled out, and how

Re: [Maps-l] Maps, community, and enabling disruptive tech

would roll out as a stable feature for everybody. > Maybe this is a slower way, but safer and cause less dissatisfaction in the > community and about Wikipedia. > > Best, > Samat > > > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > Guillaume and Fe

[Maps-l] Now live: Shared structured data

Gift season! We have launched structured data on Commons, available from all wikis. TLDR; One data store. Use everywhere. Upload table data to Commons, with localization, and use it to create wiki tables, lists, or use directly in graphs. Works for GeoJSON maps too. Must be licensed as CC0. Try th

Re: [Maps-l] [Wikitech-l] Now live: Shared structured data

bular and map data did not excite you :( On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:38 PM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > > Gift season! We have launched structured data on Commons, available from > > all wikis. > > > > I

Re: [Maps-l] [Wikitech-l] Now live: Shared structured data

Micru, thanks, I think Datasets sounds like a good name too! On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:44 PM David Cuenca Tudela wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > bjor...@wikimedia.org > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <

Re: [Maps-l] [discovery] [Wikitech-l] Now live: Shared structured data

Svetlana, thanks for suggestion. I think we should create a portal similar to the Structured Data one, and put some examples there. Deciding on the name is difficult :) "Commons Datasets" does sound good. There has been a very prolonged discussion on where to host this feature - https://meta.wi