Hi everyone,
I’d like to use the Wikimedia Maps Tiles for the Wiki Loves Monuments Italy app (see https://github.com/ferdi2005/monumenti) which is obviously strictly Wikimedia related. :)
Is there anything else I need to do other than notifying this list?
Cheers,
Ferdinando
Greetings,
This is a follow up from our last email some months ago. You may already
have seen today's announcement from Legal about the upcoming changes to the
Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up that Wikimedia Maps are
transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase of this
transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our vector
tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there should
be little to no impact to the end users’ experience.
It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable to
support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia Maps
aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to and
learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower those
engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with ease
and low effort.
If you want to learn more, please head to mediawiki.org [2], where you will
also find a Questions & Answers section.
Thanks, and take care,
Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team)
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator
[1] https://tegola.io/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan
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Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)>
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From: Stephen LaPorte <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:56 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming change to the Wikimedia Maps Terms of Use
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
On April 5, 2020, we will update the Wikimedia Maps Terms of Use. Following
the access limits announced in August 2020 [0] and implemented in October
2020 [1], the Wikimedia Maps service no longer supports third-party usage
of Wikimedia map tiles. We are now updating the terms to reflect this
policy.
This change will not affect support for Wikimedia Maps on the Wikimedia
projects, tools hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services, or other allowed
Wikimedia-affiliated domains. [2]
The updated Maps Terms of Use is available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Revised_Maps_Terms_of_Use_(March_2021)
If you have any suggestions, you can add them to the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Revised_Maps_Terms_of_Use_(March_2021)
Under our Maps Terms of Use, we've committed to providing 14 days notice
before changes are made to the policy.
Best,
Stephen
[0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2020-August/001729.html
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261694
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Hello all,
If you are a member of the Wikimaps User Group, I created a Meta page for
the user group to revitalize itself based on a message from AffCom shared
by Susanna in the Wikimaps Telegram group.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Revitalization
We can have some discussions here, but for transparency and because not
everyone is on this mailing list, I would suggest we do our discussions
on-wiki at the talk page as much as possible.
Regards,
Eugene
Hello all,
The Wikimaps User Group is currently in the non-compliant state as a WMF
affiliate because of a missing report for the last year. See this notice on
the Meta talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=20926926
Here's the status of our reports:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Activity_reports
I guess we can just report that there is no activity for 2020 because of
the pandemic? So unless anybody has anything to report, let's say there's
nothing to report.
(This has also been cross-posted to the Wikimaps Telegram and Facebook
groups. Feel free to reply anywhere.)
Regards,
Eugene
Today the Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the deprecation of the public
API for Wikimedia map tiles. Around mid October the Foundation will end
support for the Wikimedia Maps Service API [1]. This change affects people
using Wikimedia maps on their own website or app. Maps on the Wikimedia
sites, in Wikimedia-hosted tools and gadgets, and on maps.wikimedia.org
won't be affected.
This decision was made based on recent outage incidents, primarily due to
spikes in third party usage, along with an analysis showing that more than
a third of maps provided are to non-Wikimedia services (including many to
for-profit organizations).
After the most recent incident [2], the service was limited so that only
cached maps tiles would be available. While this protected the servers, it
made the service unpredictable and highlighted the unsustainability of our
tile service. So, we have made the decision to discontinue the maps APIs
for non-Wikimedia users.
This change will allow our teams working on Maps to focus on the
sustainability of the maps used within Wikimedia projects.
You can follow the implementation of this change on Phabricator [3].
Best,
Erica Litrenta
[1] https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/
[2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200204-maps
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424
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Manager, Community Relations Specialists
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
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Le sam. 27 juin 2020 à 13:00, <maps-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> a écrit :
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> 1. Re: [Wikimaps] Poll on signing the community open letter on
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> 2. Re: [Wikimaps] Poll on signing the community open letter on
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:42 +0530
> From: Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>
> To: Map integration <maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Maps-l] [Wikimaps] Poll on signing the community open
> letter on renaming
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> Hi,
>
> We have already crossed the deadline. Have we made a decision yet?
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 17:25 Albin Larsson <albin.post(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As an affiliate we also have a feedback survey separate from the one open
> > to all community members to which we can submit one response. As the
> > deadline for the survey is after June 26th I will wait to collect your
> > opinions as this poll is likely to be an indicator to how we would like
> to
> > answer. Feel free to raise any concerns you might have with this
> approach.
> >
> > I hope all of you are well, cheers
> > Albin, User:Abbe98
> >
> > Den tors 25 juni 2020 kl 13:21 skrev Eugene Alvin Villar <
> seav80(a)gmail.com
> > >:
> >
> >> Oops. The poll deadline should be June 26, not July 26.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 7:10 PM Eugene Alvin Villar, <seav80(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> If you aren't aware yet, the Wikimedia Foundation had initiated a
> >>> movement brand renaming project:
> >>>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
> >>>
> >>> The process undertaken by the Foundation has garnered controversy and a
> >>> significant pushback from the community. And following an
> all-affiliates
> >>> community call that was held last June 21[1], it was decided that an
> open
> >>> letter[2] be created requesting the Foundation to temporarily stop the
> >>> branding project and restart it to be more inclusive.
> >>>
> >>> If you are a member[3] of the Wikimaps User Group, which is an
> >>> officially recognized affiliate of the Foundation, we have started a
> straw
> >>> poll to determine if the user group, as an affiliate, should sign the
> open
> >>> letter. Please check out the straw poll here and add your vote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimaps_User_Group#Should_Wikimaps_si…
> >>>
> >>> Due to the short notice, the poll will be closed on Friday, July 26 at
> >>> 12:00 UTC.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Eugene
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/All-Affiliates_Brand_Meeting
> >>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_renaming
> >>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Members
> >>>
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