This feature really is a wasted opportunity.

In T269984#7299697, @Galopax wrote:

It's really necessary to use static thumbnail? Other WikiMedia projects, like Commons or Wikiviajes, do not use them. They load the interactive map directly.

This bug sucks also for local batch uploads (desktop or mobile) when you have 20 images and have to fill name and description for all of them. Though at least the Commons android app can already do it.

Discussed also here: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:W7ir5c1mf6iosj9j

WTF is going on here? WMF not able to add one line of code to show the categories for last 10 years since this bug was filled? This really pisses me off...

Here are screenshots:

These tasks may be related: T262745, T257894

For "landscape orientation" mobile website I think it would be wise to put the caption next to the author so that it does not affect the height of the image (image smaller because of less remaining height).

New findings for Android app. After loading in portrait orientation the gallery has 100% width. Changed orientation to landscape and back to portrait again - the width changed.

Closing this as invalid as it turned out to be caching problem. Everything works now in Android app.

The rank of some wolf and cat images were set to "preferred" while other images in those wd items were left at "normal" rank.

Adding screenshots from Android Wikipedia app from this page: https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD_park_%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_%C5%A0v%C3%BDcarsko

Yes this seems to be duplicate of those two and should be closed as T64572 was declined. I am not able to mark this as duplicate.

Why not use dynamic map via Wikimedia Maps?

How long does it take for the static thumbnails to generate? I just reverted 4 pages recently because maps showed default worldwide map. Leaving maps blank like this is a risk of edit revert.

In T88746#6747957, @Dbrant wrote:

In T88746#6747896, @Kozuch wrote:

Hello, WMF staff already working on this??? Not planned in this decade? Oh, what a pitty!

The decade is only starting, so it's possible we will add this feature at some point. In the meantime, have you tried the Commons app?

Hello, WMF staff already working on this??? Not planned in this decade? Oh, what a pitty!

Ping - any news here? How long will we have to wait fill this is fixed???

@Yurik Could you help fix this bug please?

The error string is to be found here:

Now the thumbnail in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Florida shows again. But in the other articles for other I95 section does not. This looks like on/off issue.

This ticket may be related: T158657

I have new findings - after about an hour of the edit which switched the Florida page to Template:MapfactorForObjects now the thumbnail is stoppled showing again. The JS console shows following:

Works now (maybe due to server restart for another similar bug).

@Aklapper This may be trivial for @Yurik but not for me because I have to setup the whole dev environment for maps which is rather complicated.

Can someone please revert or re-implement this so that the simplification is not so aggressive - it starts to prevent Wimimedia Maps from being used for example on English Wikipedia. The maps can not be used for example to show country borders. See relevant discussion at

Can someone fix this bug ASAP? The solution seem to be really trivial and nothing has happened in more than two years. WMF really fails miserably in such cases... WFT are the steadily rising financial assets of WMF good for when it can not handle bug as simple as this one??? This simply does not make sense to me...

Example screenshots from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesautobahn_1 page:

@Evad37 Thanks for editing the ticket description for the one specific case that I reported. However I found one more different issue when Wikidata object is not shown (but looks differently than blank map with red dot) - please see this page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module_talk:Mapframe&oldid=909143520 in section

@Evad37 Thanks for your examples - they show the issue nicely. I agree that this should be solved in Kartographer. However as I am not willing to wait for such solution, I created a clone of your Module:Mapframe to work around this bug. The new module and template for its use are here:

Added screenshots below.

And yes, I just identified a problem with the "zoom" parameter. When I leave it out for example in the map in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama, there is same problem (blank map with dot). I suspect again P625 is the problem.

And yes, I found out that when wikidata item has "coordinate location" property (P625) then the bug exists. There is a nice example of the bug here:

@Pikne Thanks for your comment. The <mapframe> code you suggest works for me. I am looking at the enwiki:Template:Maplink - it calls {{#invoke:Mapframe|main}} which passes all parameters to Mapframe's main function. I will not be able to fix this template and it is also locked for me. I will try to create my own template bypassing this Maplink's "bug" using your code.

PS. The relation in OSM is following one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/162109

I logged out and in now again and the map started to display now. I tried to log out/in previously and it did not help. Strange.

Can not believe this has been dead for so long. WMF sucks still the same, no surprise at all - what are their millions in assets good for when they do not fund such a simple feature??? This does not make sense...

@Qgil: sorry, I am out of time unfortunately... I will be happy for anyone else participating here...

In T47071#517666, @Schnark wrote:

Doing this for all languages isn't easy at all: For example in German "Ä" is considered as a variant of "A", so it should be sorted at the beginning, while in Swedish it is an own character that comes after the "Z".