Wikimedia Maps

Maintain the Wikimedia maps infrastructure including the Kartographer and Kartotherian services.

Bug reports and requests can be made in Phabricator. See How to report a bug. Please tag tasks with #Maps.

• On third-party usage

• Revised Maps Terms of Use
• Wikimedia Maps/2021 modernization plan

• Grooming existing #maps and #maps-sprint board
• Cataloging critical bugs
• Ensuring reproducibility of deployment processes
• Cataloging repositories location and ownership
• Upgrading OS to Stretch

• 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

• 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

• 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