Dear community, this week we enabled <maplink> support on all Wikipedia and sister projects. This means that now an article can have a link to a map, and that map may contain highlighted regions and popups with information. [1],[3]
Our next step is to add an informational sidebar to the map, similar to what is being shown on the "geohack" page (map link in the upper right corner of most location articles). Check out proposed screenshots [2]
We now also have a geoshapes service. So if Open Street Maps community has defined a region and assigned it a Wikidata ID, you can draw it on the map with that ID. Or you can use Wikidata Query Service (via SPARQL language), to query for those IDs and draw them on the map, coloring them and adding popup information. [3] Geoshapes can also be used for the graphs. [4]
[1] Maps docs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer [2] sidebar prototype: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131907#2616275 [3] US Governors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/maplink#/maplink/0 [4] Graph geoshapes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Country_with_regions_and_capit...
Hi Yuri,
I have successfully used <maplink> embedding objects in wikipedia-fr, of the both types : * raw geojson inclusion * references to wikidata objects via Geoshaphes service
This is really great, and particularly the latest (geoshapes / wikidata tags). I hope this will motivate the 3 communities (WP, WD and OSM) to set the tag wikidata=* into OSM. But I noticed a strange behavior : when adding the wikidata tag on an OSM object, then including a maplink tag on a wiki page, the object is not available at once. There seems to be a delay of several hours, or maybe several days.
I suppose there is a cache of some sort to wait for. Please, do you know where this delay comes from ? an OSM cache ? or on the geoshapes side ? And what is its typical duration ?
For an example, on my test page : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GAllegre#Maplinks For the moment, the 1st maplink (Limites du PNR de Chartreuse) is displayed, as I created it a few days ago, but the following ones are not displayed.
My questions are maybe odd, but I plan to largely advertise these new features towards the french WP community. I would like to be able to explain if sometimes it doesn't work well at once, in order to not discourage people who would like to try their first edit.
Le 2016-09-09, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit :
Dear community, this week we enabled <maplink> support on all Wikipedia and sister projects. This means that now an article can have a link to a map, and that map may contain highlighted regions and popups with information. [1],[3]
Our next step is to add an informational sidebar to the map, similar to what is being shown on the "geohack" page (map link in the upper right corner of most location articles). Check out proposed screenshots [2]
We now also have a geoshapes service. So if Open Street Maps community has defined a region and assigned it a Wikidata ID, you can draw it on the map with that ID. Or you can use Wikidata Query Service (via SPARQL language), to query for those IDs and draw them on the map, coloring them and adding popup information. [3] Geoshapes can also be used for the graphs. [4]
Guillaume, at the moment, we download data from OSM once a day. Fairly soon we should start downloading much more frequently. On top of that, there is a Varnish cache for one day. So if the identical request is being made, it might take up to a day for it to expire.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 8:55 PM Guillaume Allegre allegre.guillaume@free.fr wrote:
Hi Yuri,
I have successfully used <maplink> embedding objects in wikipedia-fr, of the both types :
- raw geojson inclusion
- references to wikidata objects via Geoshaphes service
This is really great, and particularly the latest (geoshapes / wikidata tags). I hope this will motivate the 3 communities (WP, WD and OSM) to set the tag wikidata=* into OSM. But I noticed a strange behavior : when adding the wikidata tag on an OSM object, then including a maplink tag on a wiki page, the object is not available at once. There seems to be a delay of several hours, or maybe several days.
I suppose there is a cache of some sort to wait for. Please, do you know where this delay comes from ? an OSM cache ? or on the geoshapes side ? And what is its typical duration ?
For an example, on my test page : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GAllegre#Maplinks For the moment, the 1st maplink (Limites du PNR de Chartreuse) is displayed, as I created it a few days ago, but the following ones are not displayed.
My questions are maybe odd, but I plan to largely advertise these new features towards the french WP community. I would like to be able to explain if sometimes it doesn't work well at once, in order to not discourage people who would like to try their first edit.
Le 2016-09-09, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit :
Dear community, this week we enabled <maplink> support on all Wikipedia
and
sister projects. This means that now an article can have a link to a
map,
and that map may contain highlighted regions and popups with information. [1],[3]
Our next step is to add an informational sidebar to the map, similar to what is being shown on the "geohack" page (map link in the upper right corner of most location articles). Check out proposed screenshots [2]
We now also have a geoshapes service. So if Open Street Maps community
has
defined a region and assigned it a Wikidata ID, you can draw it on the
map
with that ID. Or you can use Wikidata Query Service (via SPARQL
language),
to query for those IDs and draw them on the map, coloring them and adding popup information. [3] Geoshapes can also be used for the graphs. [4]
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Le 2016-09-18, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit :
Guillaume, at the moment, we download data from OSM once a day. Fairly soon we should start downloading much more frequently. On top of that, there is a Varnish cache for one day. So if the identical request is being made, it might take up to a day for it to expire.
Thanks a lot for your explanation!
I tend to think it's worth to be mentioned in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_externa... (~ principle of least astonishment), unless you plan to change it to a very short delay.
Many thanks for all!