Welcome everyone in this new Wikimaps list.
In this year's Wikimaps project we have 5 work packages for development. Number one is done by Tim Waters, where OAuth is enabled between Commons and Wikimaps Warper, the Warper code is upgraded, maintenance is done to the OpenHistoricalMap stack + other tasks that you can find here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Development#Work_package...
We are starting the work on the work package number 2. Welcome Jeph Paul!
Jeph will work with front end elements throughout the project. Today we had a look at the plans for elements needed in Wikimedia Commons.
The user story would be the following:
"A user encounters an image in Wikimedia Commons and wants to mark that as a map. A gadget has been enabled that allows ticking the image as a map. As a consequence, the current information in the Information template is mapped to the Map template. The user confirms or changes the mapping.
The Map template display will have options to place the image roughly, or send the image to the Warper for rectification. It will also enable importing rectification data from an external source."
- We are looking into creating a form or the like for editing the metadata for a map in Wikimedia Commons. - We need various UI elements: editing/inputting time, lookup for existing entries in Wikidata etc. Styles will be based on the Wikimedia Agora UI guidelines. - Currently, the metadata is stored in the markup. Wikimedia Commons is making a shift to storing Commons data as structured data in a Wikibase. Therefore, we should minimize the amount of useless work by making only the most necessary changes, or postponing this part altogether, or making design that can be applied in both environments.
See the following resources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Design#Upload https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Design#Map_storage https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Map/Proposal
Dev plans https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Development
A study about time input https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimaps_search_input_-_Time.png
Wikidata time data type https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel#Dates_and_times
An example of declaring a time span in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q361 (Adding start date and end date, both of which can have uncertainty defined)
MediaWiki style guides: Desktop: https://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/index.html Mobile: https://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/mobile/index.html
More about Jeph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeph_paul
More about Tim: http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/
Please join the conversation!
Cheers, Susanna