The OLPC community is currently using a custom map mashup to help volunteers and school projects around the world find one another.[1] It's not hard to skin. http://olpcmap.net http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/
There was recently a discussion about using this tool on the cultural-partnerships list. Are there existing collaborative maps of Wikimedia groups and projects? Is this something worth trying?
SJ
[1] For OLPC this provided a happy medium between mapping "all users" and mapping "large established regional groups", neither of which captured the energy of the small innovative projects which drove and defined local communities. More detail: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/01/27/mapping-global-communities/
Originally this idea was proposed as something that would be useful to map out past/forthcoming GLAM collaborations and to divide them by type (content donation, conference...), but it was agreed that the range of Wikimedia community things that could be mapped are much broader and therefore it would make sense if there was one central project rather than a single purpose map.
I find the two particularly neat things about this map is that can be technically achieved are that you can set paramaters to toggle sets of tags on/off (which makes it easy to sort for what you are interested in) and also that it can draw on OpenStreetMap data if you prefer.
I recall seeing a thread recently (can't remember where) that was discussing how we don't really have a good global calendar of activities for the Wikiverse, and I think this falls into the same category... we don't really have a good global "what has happened/will happen near me?" map.
However... it's probably deceptively tricky to get this up and running on MediaWiki??
-Liam
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On 27 January 2011 12:19, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The OLPC community is currently using a custom map mashup to help volunteers and school projects around the world find one another.[1] It's not hard to skin. http://olpcmap.net http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/
There was recently a discussion about using this tool on the cultural-partnerships list. Are there existing collaborative maps of Wikimedia groups and projects? Is this something worth trying?
SJ
[1] For OLPC this provided a happy medium between mapping "all users" and mapping "large established regional groups", neither of which captured the energy of the small innovative projects which drove and defined local communities. More detail: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/01/27/mapping-global-communities/
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
how we don't really have a good global calendar of activities
This is true.
Wikiverse, and I think this falls into the same category... we don't really have a good global "what has happened/will happen near me?" map. However... it's probably deceptively tricky to get this up and running on MediaWiki??
By 'running on MediaWiki' do you mean 'embeddable in a wiki page (via an extension)'?
SJ
On 28/01/2011, at 1:42, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
how we don't really have a good global calendar of activities
This is true.
Wikiverse, and I think this falls into the same category... we don't really have a good global "what has happened/will happen near me?" map. However... it's probably deceptively tricky to get this up and running on MediaWiki??
By 'running on MediaWiki' do you mean 'embeddable in a wiki page (via an extension)'?
SJ
Sort of... Ideally it would be nice to be able to host and edit such a map right from within Meta (or wherever the map was placed on our projects) whilst logged in. But I can only guess that to do that would be extremely difficult to achieve. Embedding the map on our projects with an extension but hosted and edited elsewhere would be more feasible I guess, but also means we have to go to a non-wikimedia site to be able to edit it. This is not a big deal or anything but it would be nicer to have it "in-house". [I'm quite willing to admit up front that I don't know the tech at all, so might be on a completely irrelevant track, in which case feel free to ignore me :-) In any case, it's still a good idea IMO.]
-Liam
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