Discovery is currently working on a maps service, which is a first step towards "geo-relevant" information, but the plan is to put that on hold for Q2 (read: the next 3 months) while we identify a clearer use case for it. If you or anyone else are interested in this kind of project (or in the functioning of our search service) I recommend subscribing to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search
On 18 August 2015 at 06:09, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Toby, is there any chance that the Reading team (or maybe Multimedia or Discovery?) will incorporate more intractive features or realtime geo-relevant into Wikipedia with information like weather, air and marine traffic, bus and train service (particularly for landmarks with lots of tourists), star and sattelite positions in the sky, socioeconomic data maps, financial statistics, etc?
Thanks,
Pine On Aug 13, 2015 2:22 PM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
It's great to hear that work is progressing on this.
I'd like to see more interactive features on pages, for example live air traffic, ground traffic, and marine traffic data; and weather conditions.
Pine
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrakhan@wikimedia.org wrote:
Pine, you are right. That list is not very useful, and instead should look something like this:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Salzburg#Get_around
The bad news is that the tile service it uses is hosted on labs, which means it cannot scale to the regular wikipedia-usage levels. Plus there might be a potential policy problem there - default lab-content loading on every page visit without user's consent.
The good news is that we are very close to launching a full-blown WMF production-hosted tile service, based on the wonderful data from OSM.
See general info and some ideas people have proposed - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps (feel free to add more)
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I just now realized how powerful these tools are when I started
clicking
around.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=File%3AWhite-cheeked_...
Is there any chance of integrating some of these tools more directly
onto
Wikipedia pages, and into mobile web/mobile apps?
There is an ongoing project https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1127/ to integrate maps into MediaWiki; that's probably the best place to catalog the use cases
of
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