Hi Joe,
That's great news! I especially like the promise of replication within
minutes from OSM, it sounds wonderful. I see the feature is to be
deployed to mapframe-using wikis first. Do you have a timeline for
maplink-only wikis? If a wiki decides to enable mapframe after the
deployment, will it have to ask explicitly for this feature to be
enabled or will it be done automatically?
Regarding resources, not many free tile servers that I'm aware of can
provide this multilanguage capability. Have you considered the
possibility that some 3rd party might want a "free ride" and use
Wikimedia's tile servers, creating an increase in usage? Are there
usage caps or other similar methods in place to prevent abuse?
Also, regarding fallback languages, could you clarify what "languages
that use the same alphabet" mean? For instance, Romanian does not have
a fallback language; will the labels be displayed in English before,
say, Chinese?
Thanks,
Strainu
2018-04-21 2:00 GMT+03:00 Joe Matazzoni <jmatazzoni(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
This is to let you know that Collaboration Team is
planning to release map internationalization next week for testing on testwiki [1]. When
it’s ready, we’ll post a note to confirm.
Meanwhile, you might like to check out the detailed post I added last night to the Map
Improvements 2018 project board: Special Update on Map Internationalization[2]. It
includes a lot of information on the feature's status, how the it will work, how we
imagine it might be useful, what the known limitations are, etc. I’m looking forward to
getting your input on this challenging but important feature (the best place to leave your
ideas and questions is on the project talk page [3]).
Yours,
Joe
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948>
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_18,_2018,_Specia…
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_18,_2018,_Special_Update_on_Map_Internationalization>
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018>
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