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...