Looks like a reasonable change. Glad to see the degree of internal input that went into it.
Does maps also include other rich content like graphs, charts, heat maps and other forms of data visualization? Best James On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jan -- > > Thanks for the question. We'll be making a more specific announcement this > week about the future of the discovery projects. Sadly we don't have a lot > of new information for maps in particular and will need to do a bit more > scenario planning before we talk to the community. > > As far as focus, most of our "reading" features are actually content > created by editors that is consumed by readers and maps is no different. > While we don't have specifics as far as the roadmap, both authoring and > consumption features are totally in scope. > > Hope this helps to provide some information (if not clarity :) about how we > are approaching this. > > -Toby > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2017-06-07 23:12 GMT+02:00 Toby Negrin <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > The team working on maps, the search experience, and the project entry > > > portals (such as Wikipedia.org) will join the Readers team. This > > > realignment will allow us to build more integrated experiences and > > > knowledge-sharing for the end user. > > > > > Does maps going to readers mean that there will be less focus on editors > > tools for adding maps to articles and more focus on the readers > possibility > > to interact with the maps? If so, what is actually in the pipeline for > > maps? > > > > /Jan > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
