Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Show nearby or related articles in maps
- Problem: Mapframe is now used in over 1.5 million categories on Commons to display the area that the category covers through the coordinate on Wikidata and the layout of the corresponding item on OpenStreetMap (via commons:Template:Wikidata Infobox) - as well as being used on many other Wikimedia projects. However, it is not currently possible to automatically display related items in the map. Ideally, it should be possible to show items linked to through has part/P527 in the map and/or nearby items (using the example of commons:Category:Teide Observatory)
- Proposed solution: Have an option that shows the nearby/"part of" items in the maps.
- Who would benefit: Readers and editors that see a map on Commons and other wikis who then want to explore nearby items.
- More comments: This proposal was also posted in the 2019 wishlist. Ideally this functionality could also be used in Special:Nearby to show a map of nearby objects rather than a list (As community-requested in 2017. Wikishootme is a current example where nearby Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items are shown on a map (along with Commons photos), but that is on the toolserver rather than built in to Mediawiki.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Mike Peel (talk) 20:33, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- I think this is really important. Would also massively help wikivoyage, which have been stuck on an old script that is very resource intesive and used from toollabs. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:24, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- See also phab:T90645 —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- The closes ticket for this wrt to wikidata integration is probably phab:T188291 —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:31, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- This is Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Mobile_and_apps/"Nearby"_feature I believe. --Izno (talk) 22:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
- In part, yes, but this one has a bit more detail and is asking for more Wikidata integration. Unfortunately, I already marked Add a map to Special:Nearby for translation, so ideally we wouldn't change it now, but I think they might actually be distinct enough to keep them separate. @Mike Peel Do you have an opinion? Perhaps this one could be reworded to focus on the Wikidata integration? It's really the title that bothers me most, as that part sounds identical to "Add a map to Special:Nearby" (or at least they have the same solution). Perhaps move this to the Wikidata category, and title something like "Show maps based on has part (P527)"? MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 02:11, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- The other one came after this proposal was posted, so I'm not sure why the duplicate discussion is here? But anyway, they don't seem to overlap too much - this wants pins to be shown on existing maps, that wants new maps adding to existing lists of nearby items. They've very complementary, and could be merged, but definitely shouldn't be only one or the other. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:11, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hello! Soon it will be possible to automatically display nearby articles in a map on Commons and other Wikimedia projects using Kartographer. This feature is one of the improvements to Kartographer the Technical Wishes Team from Wikimedia Germany has been working on. The deployment of this feature is planned for 12 October on a first group of wikis. After the first feedback phase, more wikis will follow. Read more on our project page. Your feedback and comments to our open questions on the feature on this discussion page are very much appreciated. Timur Vorkul (WMDE) (talk) 09:57, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
- Many thanks for the work @Timur Vorkul (WMDE)! It looks like a good step forward. Pinging those that voted for this task in the hope they could provide feedback: @Thryduulf, Sea Cow, Izno, Ottawajin, Liuxinyu970226, Aca, Mbrickn, Gusfriend, TheInternetGnome, Libcub, JPxG, Thingofme, JAn Dudík, Daniel Case, Alvanius, Sturm, Rotavdrag, WikiAviator, Ericliu1912, DarwIn, Vulphere, 尾崎歩夢, C933103, 1234qwer1234qwer4, Toadspike, Paul2520, TheDJ, Quiddity, Putnik, and Nehaoua. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:15, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hello! Soon it will be possible to automatically display nearby articles in a map on Commons and other Wikimedia projects using Kartographer. This feature is one of the improvements to Kartographer the Technical Wishes Team from Wikimedia Germany has been working on. The deployment of this feature is planned for 12 October on a first group of wikis. After the first feedback phase, more wikis will follow. Read more on our project page. Your feedback and comments to our open questions on the feature on this discussion page are very much appreciated. Timur Vorkul (WMDE) (talk) 09:57, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
- The other one came after this proposal was posted, so I'm not sure why the duplicate discussion is here? But anyway, they don't seem to overlap too much - this wants pins to be shown on existing maps, that wants new maps adding to existing lists of nearby items. They've very complementary, and could be merged, but definitely shouldn't be only one or the other. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:11, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- In part, yes, but this one has a bit more detail and is asking for more Wikidata integration. Unfortunately, I already marked Add a map to Special:Nearby for translation, so ideally we wouldn't change it now, but I think they might actually be distinct enough to keep them separate. @Mike Peel Do you have an opinion? Perhaps this one could be reworded to focus on the Wikidata integration? It's really the title that bothers me most, as that part sounds identical to "Add a map to Special:Nearby" (or at least they have the same solution). Perhaps move this to the Wikidata category, and title something like "Show maps based on has part (P527)"? MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 02:11, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
Support. Thryduulf (talk: meta · en.wp · wikidata) 20:29, 28 January 2022 (UTC)- Support Sea Cow (talk) 22:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Izno (talk) 23:34, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ottawajin (talk) 05:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support And I hope that this can also be happened on desktop, not only on mobile. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aca (talk) 13:38, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Mbrickn (talk) 15:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Gusfriend (talk) 00:20, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 08:05, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 22:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support JPxG (talk) 00:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 01:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 00:21, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Alvanius (talk) 23:47, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Sturm (talk) 12:44, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rotavdrag (talk) 11:43, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support WikiAviator (talk) 15:45, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu（Talk） 05:38, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support But also for desktop.- Darwin Ahoy! 14:26, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 04:34, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 07:32, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support But I don't think it's necessary to use wikidata properties, just need to compare GPS coordinate for any articles that have typed in.C933103 (talk) 15:04, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- How do you want to compare the coordinates of all articles? Only Wikidata provides a way to easily query all items geolocated to a given area, ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:38, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- How do you want to compare the coordinates of all articles? Only Wikidata provides a way to easily query all items geolocated to a given area, ~~~~
- Support Toadspike (talk) 01:29, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support paul2520 (talk) 14:37, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:01, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Quiddity (talk) 08:17, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — putnik 15:01, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nehaoua (talk) 15:55, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
