Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. • • The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps.
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps

     Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

2. People also ask

   What is WikiProject maps?

   • Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps

   See all results for this question

   How do I create a map on Wikipedia?

   • The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your sources. A graphist will create the requested map.

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps

   See all results for this question

   Can a wiki map be displayed on all wikis?

   • Now, maps like the one below —which no longer shows a babel of languages and alphabets—can be displayed on almost all Wikimedia wikis.* The same map after internationalization. All labels are in the language of the wiki—English, in this case. Visit the dynamic map, and read more about its copyright licenses.

   Interactive maps, now in your language – Wikimedia Foundation

   wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/

   See all results for this question

   What are the main goals of a wiki?

   • The main intentions are: to display efficiently selected data; to create screen, web, print, creation & share friendly maps; to create a wiki style free of nationalism issues. Accordingly, these conventions provide web suitable screen/web/print/creation/share friendly colours, icons and labels.

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps/Conventions

   See all results for this question

   How many mapframe maps are on wiki pages?

   • In the weeks since we released internationalized maps to all wiki projects, users have already placed more than 60,000 new mapframe maps on wiki pages. These large numbers are possible because of templates, which volunteers can code to pull geo coordinates from Wikidata automatically and generate maps on hundreds or even thousands of pages at once.

   Interactive maps, now in your language – Wikimedia Foundation

   wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/

   See all results for this question

   Does Wikipedia have a kartographer extension?

   • That might sound like a plot twist from some adventure story, but it’s actually the situation visitors to Wikimedia projects —including Wikipedia—often found themselves in until recently. An extension called Kartographer enables Wikimedians to create interactive maps simply by supplying the longitude and latitude of a location.

   Interactive maps, now in your language – Wikimedia Foundation

   wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/

   See all results for this question

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:WikiProject_MapsWikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps

   • Cached

   WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions. The project suggests some web-friendly map conventions that may help to make maps more readable.

   • Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions

     The main intentions are: to display efficiently selected...

   • Wikipedia talk : WikiProject Maps

     This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's scale....

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:WikiProject_MapsWikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps

   • Cached

   The main intentions are: to display efficiently selected data; to create screen, web, print, creation & share friendly maps; to create a wiki style free of nationalism issues. Accordingly, these conventions provide web suitable screen/web/print/creation/share friendly colours, icons and labels.

   Convention Sub-page	Main Feature And Usage	Example Topics
   /Orthographic maps (en)	World location	Countries, political entities
   /Location maps (2008 standard)/Location ...	Political entity borders and divisions, ...	Countries, political entities, cities.
   /Locator maps	Blank area for creating Locator maps.	A province in the country (when the blank ...
   /Area maps (en)	Maps that highlight one subject area, ...	Locator maps: a country (red) in its ...

   See full list on en.wikipedia.org

5. en.wikipedia.org › Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_MapsWikipedia talk : WikiProject Maps

   en.wikipedia.org › Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Maps

   • Cached

   This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's scale. WikiProject Maps is of interest to WikiProject Geographical coordinates, which encourages the use of in Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

6. commons.wikimedia.org › wiki › Commons:WikiProject_AtlasCommons : WikiProject Atlas - Wikimedia

   commons.wikimedia.org › wiki › Commons:WikiProject_Atlas

   • Cached

   Sep 28, 2024 · This is WikiProject Atlas, a WikiProject for focused collaboration among users on the topic of Atlas. Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World. The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons.

7. rweberling.github.io › 2014 › 05Wikipedia What? Wikiprojects and How They Run – Ryan Weberling

   rweberling.github.io › 2014 › 05

   • Cached

   A WikiProject is a group of editors that collaborate on encyclopedic work at a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia.

8. wikimediafoundation.org › news › 2018/06/28Interactive maps, now in your language – Wikimedia Foundation

   wikimediafoundation.org › news › 2018/06/28

   • Cached

   Jun 28, 2018 · An extension called Kartographer enables Wikimedians to create interactive maps simply by supplying the longitude and latitude of a location. The service is powered by geographic data from the open-source mapping project OpenStreetMap.

9. wiki.openstreetmap.org › wiki › Collaboration_withCollaboration with Wikipedia - OpenStreetMap Wiki

   wiki.openstreetmap.org › wiki › Collaboration_with

   • Cached

   Jul 6, 2024 · Wikipedia WikiProject. There is an (inactive) WikiProject page on Wikipedia which should provide guidance to Wikipedians on how to create map images for use in Wikipedia articles. Hopefully this process will be easy enough to be followed for many Wikipedia articles.