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 <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
Great work!
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:13 AM Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org
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.
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