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This task tracks a proposal from the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/ | 2016 Community Wishlist Survey ]]. This proposal received 48 support votes and was ranked #21 out of 265 proposals: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Reading#Better_interface_and_visualisation_for_coordinates_and_map ------- === Problem === When someone click on a coordinates link, he is redirect to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate | en:Template:GeoTemplate ]] (wp:en version) but : - Geohack isn't manage by the WMF. It's a volunteer interface. It's host on wikilabs, It's surely the most used tools of wikilabs. I don't think wikilabs should host so useful tools. So when wikilabs was/will be down, Geohack is down, and for everyone is very complicated to geolocate coordinates on wikipedia without Geohack. - Geohack has one version for each wikipedia, I still don't understand why each wikipedia need a different interface and a different list of siteweb for access to a map. Did each wikipedia have a different interface for visualize a picture ? - Geohack interface doesn't upgrade (for many reason). The shared part of Geohack's interface doesn't upgrade ; Many and many wiki doesn't upgrade or maintain the "editorial" part of Geohack. [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer | Kartographer ]] should be much prominent on lot of version of Geohack. Exemple : Geohack's english version still have it visualization windows down since january 2016, not body care. See the buged grey square on en:Template:GeoTemplate... Others stuffs : - Kartographer should replace some visualisation's tools on lot of wiki, tools like WikiMiniatlas or WikiOpenStreetMap. - Kartographer could be used on some infobox on wikipedia. (It's not permit currently, only on Wikivoyage) - Lot and lot of coordinates links aren't clickable on wikidata (like on [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21650786 | d:Q21650786 ]], [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555925 | d:Q555925 ]], [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461210 | d:Q461210 ]]). I have report the problem few month ago, still not resolved... More generally, I'm a occasional reader of [[ http://liveuamap.com/ | Liveuamap ]] (founded on 2014) or [[ http://wikimapia.org/ | Wikimapia ]] (founded on 2006). For me, Wikimedia should offer similar services... === Who would benefit === Reader of geographic pages or pages which have coord on wikipedia/wikipedia/commons/wikinews/wikivoyage... === Proposed solution === WMF should more directly manage Geohack. Simple. The development of [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer | Kartographer ]] is done. It's the hard part of the job. Just need to more deploy that. === Technical details === -- === Time, expertise and skills required === -- e.g. 2-3 weeks, advanced contributor, javascript, css, etc === Suitable for === -- e.g. Hackathon, GSOC, Outreachy, etc. === Proposer === @Nouill === Related links === -

This task tracks a proposal from the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/ | 2016 Community Wishlist Survey ]]. This proposal received 48 support votes and was ranked #21 out of 265 proposals: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Reading#Better_interface_and_visualisation_for_coordinates_and_map ------- === Problem === When someone click on a coordinates link, he is redirect to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate | en:Template:GeoTemplate ]] (wp:en version) but : - Geohack isn't manage by the WMF. It's a volunteer interface. It's host on wikilabs, It's surely the most used tools of wikilabs. I don't think wikilabs should host so useful tools. So when wikilabs was/will be down, Geohack is down, and for everyone is very complicated to geolocate coordinates on wikipedia without Geohack. - Geohack has one version for each wikipedia, I still don't understand why each wikipedia need a different interface and a different list of siteweb for access to a map. Did each wikipedia have a different interface for visualize a picture ? - Geohack interface doesn't upgrade (for many reason). The shared part of Geohack's interface doesn't upgrade ; Many and many wiki doesn't upgrade or maintain the "editorial" part of Geohack. [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer | Kartographer ]] should be much prominent on lot of version of Geohack. Exemple : Geohack's english version still have it visualization windows down since january 2016, not body care. See the buged grey square on en:Template:GeoTemplate... Others stuffs : - Kartographer should replace some visualisation's tools on lot of wiki, tools like WikiMiniatlas or WikiOpenStreetMap. - Kartographer could be used on some infobox on wikipedia. (It's not permit currently, only on Wikivoyage) - Lot and lot of coordinates links aren't clickable on wikidata (like on [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21650786 | d:Q21650786 ]], [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555925 | d:Q555925 ]], [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461210 | d:Q461210 ]]). I have report the problem few month ago, still not resolved... More generally, I'm a occasional reader of [[ http://liveuamap.com/ | Liveuamap ]] (founded on 2014) or [[ http://wikimapia.org/ | Wikimapia ]] (founded on 2006). For me, Wikimedia should offer similar services... === Who would benefit === Reader of geographic pages or pages which have coord on wikipedia/wikipedia/commons/wikinews/wikivoyage... === Proposed solution === WMF should more directly manage Geohack. Simple. The development of [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer | Kartographer ]] is done. It's the hard part of the job. Just need to more deploy that. === Technical details === -- === Time, expertise and skills required === -- e.g. 2-3 weeks, advanced contributor, javascript, css, etc === Suitable for === -- e.g. Hackathon, GSOC, Outreachy, etc. === Proposer === @Nouill === Related links === - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137253

This task tracks a proposal from the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/ | 2016 Community Wishlist Survey ]]. This proposal received 48 support votes and was ranked #21 out of 265 proposals: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Reading#Better_interface_and_visualisation_for_coordinates_and_map ------- === Problem === When someone click on a coordinates link, he is redirect to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate | en:Template:GeoTemplate ]] (wp:en version) but : - Geohack isn't manage by the WMF. It's a volunteer interface. It's host on wikilabs, It's surely the most used tools of wikilabs. I don't think wikilabs should host so useful tools. So when wikilabs was/will be down, Geohack is down, and for everyone is very complicated to geolocate coordinates on wikipedia without Geohack. - Geohack has one version for each wikipedia, I still don't understand why each wikipedia need a different interface and a different list of siteweb for access to a map. Did each wikipedia have a different interface for visualize a picture ? - Geohack interface doesn't upgrade (for many reason). The shared part of Geohack's interface doesn't upgrade ; Many and many wiki doesn't upgrade or maintain the "editorial" part of Geohack. [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer | Kartographer ]] should be much prominent on lot of version of Geohack. Exemple : Geohack's english version still have it visualization windows down since january 2016, not body care. See the buged grey square on en:Template:GeoTemplate... Others stuffs : - Kartographer should replace some visualisation's tools on lot of wiki, tools like WikiMiniatlas or WikiOpenStreetMap. - Kartographer could be used on some infobox on wikipedia. (It's not permit currently, only on Wikivoyage) - Lot and lot of coordinates links aren't clickable on wikidata (like on [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21650786 | d:Q21650786 ]], [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555925 | d:Q555925 ]], [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461210 | d:Q461210 ]]). I have report the problem few month ago, still not resolved... More generally, I'm a occasional reader of [[ http://liveuamap.com/ | Liveuamap ]] (founded on 2014) or [[ http://wikimapia.org/ | Wikimapia ]] (founded on 2006). For me, Wikimedia should offer similar services... === Who would benefit === Reader of geographic pages or pages which have coord on wikipedia/wikipedia/commons/wikinews/wikivoyage... === Proposed solution === WMF should more directly manage Geohack. Simple. The development of [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer | Kartographer ]] is done. It's the hard part of the job. Just need to more deploy that. === Technical details === -- === Time, expertise and skills required === -- e.g. 2-3 weeks, advanced contributor, javascript, css, etc === Suitable for === -- e.g. Hackathon, GSOC, Outreachy, etc. === Proposer === @Nouill === Related links === - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137253