Joe, thanks for heeding community's wish to have better maps, and
delivering, all within the short span of ~3.5 months. Very impressive
achievement! How can the community encourage WMF to do more map work
beyond the June deadline, similar to how foundation continues to work on
improving search, Visual Editor, and other tools? Thanks!
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 1:33 AM Joe Matazzoni <jmatazzoni(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
As of today, interactive (Kartographer) maps no longer
display in the
language of the territory mapped; instead, you’ll read them in the content
language of the wiki where they appear—or in the language their authors
specify (subject to availability of multilingual data). In addition,
mapframe, the feature that automatically embeds dynamic maps right on a
wiki page, is now live on most Wikipedias that lacked the feature. (Not
included in the mapframe launch are nine Wikipedias [1] that use the
stricter version of Flagged Revisions).
If you you’re new to mapframe, this Kartographer help page [2] shows how
to get started putting dynamic maps on your pages. If you’d like to read
more about map internationalization: this Special Update [3] explains the
feature and its limiations; this post [4] and this one [5] describe the
uses of the new parameter, lang=”xx”, which lets you specify a map’s
language. And here are some example maps [6] to illustrate the new
capabilities.
These features could not have been created without the generous
programming contributions and advice of our many map-loving volunteers,
including Yurik, Framawiki, Naveenpf, TheDJ, Milu92, Astirlin, Evad37,
Pigsonthewing, Mike Peel, Eran Roz, Gareth and Abbe98. My apologies to
anyone I’ve missed.
The Map Improvements 2018 [7] project wraps up at the end of June, so
please give internationalized maps and mapframe a try soon and give us your
feedback on the project talk page [8]. We’re listening.
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191583
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_18,_2018,_Specia…
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_25,_2018,_You_ca…
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_26,_2018:_OSM_na…
[6]
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples
[7]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018
[8]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018
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Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Collaboration
Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
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