James: thanks for asking; I'm copying that question to the Wikitech list.
While we're on that topic, what's happening to multimedia? I believe that
at one time there was a multimedia team, and I could understand how pairing
multimedia with maps in the same team could make sense. If multimedia is
separate, it would be good to know where that's being housed now; I believe
that there's work happening with 3D files for Commons, and I vaguely recall
hearing about improvements to the Commons upload wizard.
Pine
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 8:07 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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 <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org>
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 <ainali.jan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-06-07 23:12 GMT+02:00 Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
>
> >
> > 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
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