Kudos. Great work!
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrakhan@gmail.com wrote:
Joe, thanks for heeding community's wish to have better maps, and delivering, all within the short span of ~3.5 months. Very impressive achievement! How can the community encourage WMF to do more map work beyond the June deadline, similar to how foundation continues to work on improving search, Visual Editor, and other tools? Thanks!
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 1:33 AM Joe Matazzoni jmatazzoni@wikimedia.org wrote:
As of today, interactive (Kartographer) maps no longer display in the language of the territory mapped; instead, you’ll read them in the
content
language of the wiki where they appear—or in the language their authors specify (subject to availability of multilingual data). In addition, mapframe, the feature that automatically embeds dynamic maps right on a wiki page, is now live on most Wikipedias that lacked the feature. (Not included in the mapframe launch are nine Wikipedias [1] that use the stricter version of Flagged Revisions).
If you you’re new to mapframe, this Kartographer help page [2] shows how to get started putting dynamic maps on your pages. If you’d like to read more about map internationalization: this Special Update [3] explains the feature and its limiations; this post [4] and this one [5] describe the uses of the new parameter, lang=”xx”, which lets you specify a map’s language. And here are some example maps [6] to illustrate the new capabilities.
These features could not have been created without the generous programming contributions and advice of our many map-loving volunteers, including Yurik, Framawiki, Naveenpf, TheDJ, Milu92, Astirlin, Evad37, Pigsonthewing, Mike Peel, Eran Roz, Gareth and Abbe98. My apologies to anyone I’ve missed.
The Map Improvements 2018 [7] project wraps up at the end of June, so please give internationalized maps and mapframe a try soon and give us
your
feedback on the project talk page [8]. We’re listening.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191583 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#
April_18,_2018,_Special_Update_on_Map_Internationalization
April_25,_2018,_You_can_now_try_out_internationalization_(on_testwiki)
April_26,_2018:_OSM_name_data_quirks_and_the_uses_of_lang=% E2%80%9Clocal%E2%80%9D
[6] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018 [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018 _____________________
Joe Matazzoni Product Manager, Collaboration Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
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the
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