On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Should we try to introduce the map tag in Wikipedia? Has it > already been tried, and what was the reaction? Do we have any bad > experience from its use in the OSM, to learn and improve from? > > It's not easy to convince the tech staff of Wikipedia to introduce > new features. They probably receive such requests daily. The code > must run, it must scale very well, and be very stable. If we > really want to introduce the <map> tag (or something similar) in > Wikipedia, we must provide really good arguments. > > Fortunately, there is a Wikipedia developer meeting on April 3-5, > where I could bring this forward.
Just installing an extension on Wikimedia and pulling tiles from OSM would not be acceptable: * Wikimedia would need its own updated Planet dump * Its own tile rendering infrastructure * It would have to be accessible and not just availible to JS enabled browsers * It would have to work with the static dumps (http://static.wikipedia.org/) AFAIK the only dialogue on this has been informal thus far, it would be interesting to start up a discussion on wikitech-l about what would be required, and document it on a Wikimedia-hosted wiki somewhere. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
