[OSM-talk] Map tag in Wikipedia

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> Should we try to introduce the map tag in Wikipedia?  Has it
> already been tried, and what was the reaction?  Do we have any bad
> experience from its use in the OSM, to learn and improve from?
>
> It's not easy to convince the tech staff of Wikipedia to introduce
> new features. They probably receive such requests daily. The code
> must run, it must scale very well, and be very stable. If we
> really want to introduce the <map> tag (or something similar) in
> Wikipedia, we must provide really good arguments.
>
> Fortunately, there is a Wikipedia developer meeting on April 3-5,
> where I could bring this forward.

Just installing an extension on Wikimedia and pulling tiles from OSM
would not be acceptable:

* Wikimedia would need its own updated Planet dump
* Its own tile rendering infrastructure
* It would have to be accessible and not just availible to JS enabled browsers
* It would have to work with the static dumps (http://static.wikipedia.org/)

AFAIK the only dialogue on this has been informal thus far, it would
be interesting to start up a discussion on wikitech-l about what would
be required, and document it on a Wikimedia-hosted wiki somewhere.