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â Map improvements 2018 |
This page is where developments relating to Wikimedia maps will be announced and discussed after July of 2018. It takes over from the Map improvements 2018 page, which documented a project that added various upgrades in the first half of that year, and from the Wikimedia Maps/2015-2017 page, which preceded that.
Goals
[edit]Maintain the Wikimedia maps infrastructure including the Kartographer and Kartotherian services.
Feedback
[edit]Bug reports and requests can be made in Phabricator. See How to report a bug. Please tag tasks with #Maps.
Project updates
[edit]August 2021
[edit]March 2021
[edit]July 2018
[edit]- Grooming existing #maps and #maps-sprint board
- Cataloging critical bugs
- Ensuring reproducibility of deployment processes
- Cataloging repositories location and ownership
- Upgrading OS to Stretch
August 2018
[edit]- Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued)
- Added Stretch testing instance (deployment-maps04) to the Beta Cluster
- Upgrading Mapnik to 3.7.2
- Dealing with vandalism
- Posted the August 14, 2018 update on Status of map styles
September to December 2018
[edit]- Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued)
- Tile generation started at 10/22/2018, see Wikimedia Maps/Tile generation report for more information
- Fixed Tilerator crashing with populate_admin script
- Make snapshot service generate higher DPI images
- Dependencies mapping and upgrading
- Fixed stale z9 tile generation
- Tilerator overloading proxy incident
- Decommission of maps-test
- Added map tile purge rule for cache invalidation strategies
Useful mapping links
[edit]- Wikimedia Maps/API - Description of the API services provided by maps.wikimedia.org
- Help:Extension:Kartographer - A Help doc that gives guidance and examples for users who want to create and edit interactive wiki maps.
- Help:VisualEditor/Maps - Help with adding and editing interactive maps using the Visual Editor.
- Extension:Kartographer - Documentation on the MediaWiki extension that enabled the maps service.
- Map performance, replag and health status
- Map improvements 2018 - Documents a 2018 project to shore up maps technology and make maps display in the language of the user instead of the territory mapped.
- Status of map styles in August 2018
- Wikimedia Maps/Tile generation report - Update on tile generation