<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Nice! Thx!<br><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Nitin Gadia <<a href="mailto:nittyjee@gmail.com">nittyjee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>hahaha<br>awesome :)<br><br>Just signed up.<br>I'm not a developer, but I suppose you learn by doing.<br>I'll just have others jump in too in order to establish things :)<br><br>Chris - check it out (scroll down to MapStory):<br>
<a href="https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BResource-20Type::project-5D-5D/-3F/-3FMember/-3FDescription/mainlabel%3D-2D/searchlabel%3Dprojects/offset%3D0">https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BResource-20Type::project-5D-5D/-3F/-3FMember/-3FDescription/mainlabel%3D-2D/searchlabel%3Dprojects/offset%3D0</a><br>
<br>nitin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Ryan Lane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlane@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">rlane@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I just created it. We'll need people to add to it, though. They'll<br>
need to sign up for access at:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access</a><br>
<br>
- Ryan<br>
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nitin Gadia <<a href="mailto:nittyjee@gmail.com">nittyjee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5">> Hello,<br>
><br>
> We recently attended Wikimania in Washington DC, where we met Erik Möller,<br>
> who showed us Wikimedia Labs, telling us it would be a good fit. We're<br>
> interested in helping create a Wikimedia Labs project around serving<br>
> mapstories. A mapstory is a type of map that shows change over time, which<br>
> is, like wikipedia or openstreetmap (OSM, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">www.openstreetmap.org</a>), being<br>
> developed in an online community built on the same standards of openness, at<br>
> <a href="http://www.mapstory.org" target="_blank">www.mapstory.org</a>. We are aware that wikimedia and openstreetmap (OSM) are<br>
> collaborating to serve OSM data through wikimedia to be seen on wikipedia<br>
> articles, and would love to do the same. MapStory is inspired by both<br>
> openstreetmap and wikipedia, and is being built on the same standards of<br>
> openness, and intends to be yet another companion in the open knowledge<br>
> community, and is to be governed in similar ways by the MapStory Foundation.<br>
> At the moment, MapStory is invitation-based, as it is being developed, but<br>
> it will be fully open to anyone's registration.<br>
><br>
> Examples of mapstories include:<br>
> *Events: Yellowstone Fire: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/149" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/149</a><br>
> *Trends: Population Growth: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/162" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/162</a><br>
> *General historical change: Africa: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/153" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/153</a>, walmart:<br>
> <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/60" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/60</a>, NYC subway: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view</a><br>
> *Large scale mapstories - some mapstories will be enormous, allowing you to<br>
> eventually type in a time, and see the way the world was then. So, a user<br>
> might type in "1900", and see all the roads, buildings, land use, and<br>
> landscape down to very local levels, like you can with OSM now.<br>
><br>
> The integration of mapstories into wikipedia and other wikimedia projects<br>
> would be extremely fruitful. I can imagine that any article about political<br>
> entities, events, and statistics can, and probably will, have a mapstory.<br>
> I'll reply to this message with some examples in a moment.<br>
><br>
> What do we need to do in order for us to establish a MapStory labs project,<br>
> or add ourselves to an existing one? Unfortunately, I am not a developer<br>
> myself, but we can at least get started while the developers crank out the<br>
> core mapstory functionality.<br>
><br>
> I've cc-ed Christopher Tucker, the founder of MapStory.<br>
> Please reply-all if you can :)<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Nitin Gadia<br>
> Ames, Iowa, USA<br>
> MapStory Foundation<br>
> <a href="http://www.mapstory.org" target="_blank">www.mapstory.org</a><br>
><br>
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