Perhaps of interest also to a few Maps, Mobile or Wikidata folks.
Pine
On May 28, 2016 21:37, "Rachel Farrand" <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Please join for the following tech talk:
>
> *Tech Talk**:* Integrating user behavior to design better products
> *Presenter:* Pau Giner
> *Date:* May 31, 2016
> *Time: *19:00 UTC
> <
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Integ…
> >
> *Length:* 30 minutes
> Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLeTABdcdR4>
> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
>
> *Summary: *The design process helps us to find solutions that respond to
> the user needs. However, this process needs to rely on actual user behavior
> to make sure we are addressing the right problems with the best possible
> solutions.
>
> Wikimedia projects are developed in the open and they reach millions of
> users in very different contexts. This makes it challenging to integrate
> the different observed behaviors, measured actions, opinions and other
> forms of feedback.
>
> After applying the design process on different Wikimedia projects, I want
> to share some good practices and lessons learnt when integrating user
> behavior to inform product decisions, and how you (in whichever role you
> are playing) can help designers to better support this process.
>
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Hi all,
I'm not totally sure whether this is the correct mailing list, but the
topic is very map related :)
I always figured that there should be a comfortable way for geocoding
existing files on Wikimedia Commons. However, Commons:Geocoding only
mentions tools that somehow generate a {{Location}} string which has
to be inserted manually afterwards.
That's why I tried to tackle this problem. The outcome is the
locator-tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/locator-tool/
The idea is that you generate/insert a list of media files to geocode.
Afterwards you take file by file, select its location on an
interactive OpenStreetMap-based map. The tool will automatically
generate the {{Location}} string and insert/update the wikitext.
The web application is mostly written in JavaScript using the
AngularJS framework. Only the OAuth and editing stuff requires a slim
backend written in Python/Flask.
Currently it only supports editing {{Location}} templates, but not
{{Object location}}. As far as I understand, the latter is not
returned by the API (action=query, prop=coordinates)? The camera
heading isn't yet editable neither.
Cheers from Austria,
Simon
Forwarding.
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] 12-May-2016 CREDIT, going back to Hangouts on
Air/YouTube
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Foundation Multimedia Team <Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mobile-l <
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FYI, this week's presentations, according to the Etherpad, are:
* *Derk-Jan Hartman:* Video.js progress
* *Dmitry Brant*: Wikidata infoboxes in Android app
* *Joaquin Hernandez*: Vicky chat bot
* *Baha*: mobile printing for offline reading
* *Monte*: "smart random" content service endpoint
* *Erik*: Geo boosting search queries
Cheers,
Pine
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Reminder...
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The next CREDIT showcase will be Thursday, 12-May-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100
> > SF).
> >
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
> >
> > For this one we'll use Hangouts on Air for presenters, and the customary
> > YouTube stream for viewers.
> >
> > See you next month!
> > -Adam
> >
> >
> >
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Hello,
The Maps team at the Wikimedia Foundation is getting closer to make it
possible to add interactive maps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps> to
Wikipedia. If you've ever used services like Google Maps or Mapquest you
may be familiar with interactive maps. We’d like to invite editors to have
a conversation on how these maps might be used within articles. We've put
together information on how these maps and their style works from a
technical perspective
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use>
– where the data comes from, how maps are styled, how to add an interactive
map, and a few example use cases.
In particular we would like to focus the discussion around three key
questions (open discussion outside these questions is welcome too).
* What types of articles would use interactive maps?
* How do these articles differ in their requirements?
* Are there any classes of articles whose map styling requirement is
fundamentally in conflict with other article classes, thus requiring
multiple styles?
If you are interested, please visit
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
to learn more and get involved.
--
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation