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.
>
> *Feel free to forward this email to any other relevant wikimedia lists.*
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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 <
mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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
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.
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.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Maps-l mailing list
> > Maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
> >
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--
Cornelius Kibelka
Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
(Cross-posting)
For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM,
now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations.
Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from
around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to start thinking about
travel plans.
For Wikimedia volunteers outside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory, you
might consider applying for WMF Travel and Participation Support grants [1].
If you're inside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory and would like to attend
the conference, we may have funds in our budget that can support your
attendance. Contact me off-list for details.
Regards,
Pine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
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From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-announce(a)meetup.com
I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit. The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.
We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.
The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/
Clifford
The Discovery's maps team would like to share the progress we have been
making, and our future goals.
* Kartographer extension is getting closer to being deployed. It will allow
editors to insert a map and add article specific data into wiki pages.
Kartographer has a neat Visual Editor interface thanks to Ed Sanders. We
hope to add a good VE maps editor there as well. See [1]
* Wikipedia Android app now shows all nearby articles on a map (Kudos to
Dmitry Brant)
* GeoHack (gps link in the upper right corner) for Russian and Italian
Wikipedias have switched to the new map. English wiki will have it soon as
well (Kudos to Putnik and Legoktm)
* English & Russian WikiVoyage has switched to the new map
* Maps database is automatically refreshed from OSM (thanks to Max Semenik
and Alex Kosiaris)
* We now have a map without place labels [2]
[1] DEMO: http://vem3.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
[2] https://maps.wikimedia.org/?s=osm
*== Community Projects ==*
* Simon Legner has been actively developing article map [3] with some help
from Tim Alder and Daniel Schwen
* Several people are working on Wikimaps Warper [4] tool to add and
position scanned map images.
* Kartotherian tile server code has been improved [5] and deployed to a
non-WMF site. This makes us very happy because it shows that our code is
useful to others.
[3]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=de&article=Berl…
[4] http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/wikimaps-tools/wikimaps-warper/
[5] https://github.com/zoondka/kartozoa
*== Future plans / goals ==*
This quarter, our goal is to improve the content discovery experience on
Wikivoyage by rolling out maps to all Wikivoyages. Specific tasks can be
tracked in Phabricator: #maps [6], #kartographer [7]. These are some of the
tasks we plan to do:
* Deploy Kartographer extension to Wikivoyage
* Add maps editor to Kartographer
* Work with Operations to make maps a production-level service. This
includes adding more caching and backend servers.
* Offer maps as a more stable and feature rich alternative to
geohack/wiwosm/WikiMiniAtlas
* Implement cross-wiki shared data storage
* Implement static service capable of generating a map image with the
article-specific overlays
* Allow editors to add maps directly to Wikipedia
* Implement the most requested features from the Future Plans [8]
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/
[8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans
Tim, I was very excited to get your email! I somehow missed Simon's
efforts, and I think it would be a great idea for all of us to sync up
(perhaps via hangout?)
I have recently submitted Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer> extension (code
<https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Kartographer>) for
security review, and I hope we could deploy it at least to Wikivoyage
fairly soon. Kartographer eventually should allow readers to see and
interact with the map just like Graph examples
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo#Vega_2.0_Interactive_Ex…>
.
Kartographer uses mabox.js library <https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox.js/>,
which includes Leaflet. Using mapbox.js will allow editors to add styled
GeoJSON <https://github.com/mapbox/simplestyle-spec/tree/master/1.1.0> directly
to wikipedia pages - example
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer#Usage_Ideas>. Also
worth mentioning is the new feature
<https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian/blob/master/README.md#markers> I
added to Kartotherian - an ability to generate pushpin images of any Maki
symbol in any color (example
<https://maps.wikimedia.org/v4/marker/pin-l-rail-metro+007800@2x.png>).
Kartographer should allow editors to customize map for each article. The
big remaining issue is the server-side rendering - we can already generate
static images, but we must be able to generate them with the extra GeoJSON
layers. It seems leaflet/mapbox.js do not support node.js headless
rendering. I saw the leaflet-headless
<https://github.com/jieter/leaflet-headless> project, but it might require
some work to use it with mapbox.js. So any help with this would be great.
Now to the points from your email:
* Style goals task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113912> is open, we
should discuss how to work on it
* Transportation POIs was a request from Wikivoyage community. I feel they
should be at least reduced in size and restyled - should be easy enough
using Mapbox Studio, but I am very bad at visual designing - any patches
are welcome.
* Mobile Android app just added maps, but they use the base layer plus add
pushpins for Wikipedia articles. Eventually I hope they will be able to
show maps as part of the articles, with the extra layers.
* Simon map is an awesome effort, and we should figure out how to bring it
from wmflabs to production - otherwise we won't be able to use it for
Wikipedia traffic - the virtual servers won't be able to support it, and it
is not safe from security perspective.
* Multilingual maps are a huge request, so seriously doubt it in 2 months.
WMDE has graciously offered one of their engineers, Johannes, to work on
Mapnik. He already fixed a very long standing RTL font rendering bug, and
hopefully he will be able to figure out how to add HSTORE storage to
Mapnik. Once done, it will be simple to add all languages to the vector
tiles, and to pick what to render at the last second.
* We cannot show maps to any Wikipedia users as part of the articles
because we don't have the server capacity for that yet. But, you can easily
switch the geohack template (GPS coords in the upper right corner) to use
our new maps, just like ruwiki did, by modifying GeoTemplate
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:GeoTempl…>
and GeoHack.js <https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GeoHack.js> (these
are ruwiki, but you can do the same for dewiki, enwiki, etc). As always,
this is up to the community and not WMF, thus I didn't do it myself.
Switching ruwiki geohack quadrupled our traffic
<http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/maps/>. But geohack is obviously a stopgap
measure - once we have more capacity, I hope we can use Kartographer
extension on all Wikipedias.
* I'm fairly happy with the performance - all maps are served via 2 varnish
caching servers + 4 backend servers. For full production, we will need 4
varnish servers in each of the 4 data centers. That should significantly
improve performance for many regions.
* A still big open question is how to add large external databases to
Wikipedia. OSM database required huge efforts, but we shouldn't have to do
this every time we add a new db. No solution for this yet. One option is
to set up a well understood API on your database, and let Kartographer pick
up that data?
* We already generate a un-labeled map (use /osm/ instead of /osm-intl/ ) -
this can help with label collusion.
* Priorities is a great question :) This quarter we were primarily
concentrating on community feedback and adaption - which has been going
great (maps on android, geo hack, wikivoyage). The next quarter we should
start doing more integration and expansion, assuming we can get our hands
on some servers.
== What can you help with ==
* Design a new better map Wikipedia-specific style
* Design a new better WebGL map Wikipedia-specific style
* Help improve SQL for vector tile generation (many bugs there)
* Help making mapbox.js run in node.js
* Gather and outline maps usage scenarios (product manager role)
* Expose your data via an API, and consume it via Kartographer
* Add more capabilities to Kartographer, e.g. spinning globe, etc
* Something else?
Ping me with any questions or ideas!
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Tim Alder <tim(a)alder-digital.de> wrote:
> Hello Yuri,
> I'm glad that Simon (in CC) starts to create a new leaflet-version of
> the map that we want to include inside Wikipedia [1]. Daniel Schwen is
> in CC as developer of the WikiMiniAtlas.
>
> I believe the most things we can do in a community-driven process, but
> there are some things where the WMF can perhaps help:
> *Some design advice for Simon's map would be nice. What do you think
> about the map? (The interactive Icons and the background map have to
> work together, in the moment are e.g. the train station icons on the
> background in the same color space like the icon above. Perhaps you can
> re-color the train station or remove them. Especial the tram stations
> seems not so important for me and could be removed in my eyes.)
> *What features should we really have?
> *What can we do to be usable in the mobile Wikipedia version or the app?
> *What's the status of multilingual map tiles. Is there a chance to have
> it available in 2 months or so?
> *We know that only a promile of the Wikipedia-readers are using the map.
> Do you see a chance that we get some advertising for it. I mean a larger
> icon or for some time a little hint or a pop-up of the map for some
> percent of the readers or so could help.
>
> How happy are you in the moment with the render stack and the servers?
> Do you think there will some problems with the performance to deliver
> tiles?
>
> My Wikipedia-coordinates are in the Toollabs-OSM-database "gis" in
> tables "wp_coords_red0", for each request I generate a new Geojson for
> individual window of view. Do you think it would make more sense to try
> to reder this data in vector tiles? Compared with OSM this data volume
> is so little that we don't need hstore for it. I believe the benefit
> could be to avoid collisions with other label and make it more
> consistent during panning the map. It could be also interesting to
> really render the labels in each different language as clickable labels.
> What do you think? Could you help with rendering?
>
> Did WMF change the priorities for maps?
>
> Best regards,
> Tim alias Kolossos
>
> [1]
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=de&article=Berl…
> Github:
> https://github.com/simon04/osm-gadget-leaflet/
>
