Hi Tim,
thanks for your reply.
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:53:27 +0200 Tim Alder tim.alder@s2002.tu-chemnitz.de wrote:
Hello Johannes, the OSM extension has it's installation-docu: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Anwend...
That means we load the following JS into the system: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:OSM.js
This JS looks in the article to find a coordinate-hook and add a link behind it, this link open the iframe.
Sounds good so far.
It's all relatively complex and I believe a normal weblink would be for your tool perhaps be the better alternative. By a template this link could also be in the right top corner, but your tool wouldn't run in an iframe. The solution with an iframe has also disadvantages that the window is relatively small.
The web link is what we can currently do. If we wanted that, I wouldn't have asked here.
About how many articles we are talking?
We want to place the map into some articles copied to user pages at first, as a test case/demo.
Then, we want to integrate the map into the Limes-related articles. Our DB currently contains historical information about ~1100 different Lemmas. Not all of them correspond to a separate WP article.
There is interest in the community for another project which will use the map software. This next map will display time-based data about villages which were demolished for coal surface mining. I'm currently extending the software to be configurable and more generic, so that other projects can use the map without changing the code. The mining map should probably also be integrated into articles. This will include 150 articles or so. See [0] for discussion.
We are currently using a temporary method for data input and storage. At some point we will switch to Wikidata, which we couldn't use at the start mainly because it couldn't store geographic locations, which it now can.
Could we find a more generic way for all historical map by supporting later OpenHistoricMap? Than the situation would be different.
I haven't looked at OpenHistoricMap in detail.
So, if I understand correctly, the next step would be to create a script similar to MediaWiki:OSM.js, which we then install in the Wiki by modifying MediaWiki:Common.js. Correct?
I don't want to work on something that people are opposed to. If there's consensus that we should not integrate the map into WP articles, I will just pass that on to the community and my WMDE colleagues. What do other people think?
Thanks, Johannes
[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bautzen#Pilotprojekt_zu_W...