Long time wikipedian from countryside with multi-cultural backgrounds.
My work
I now contribute in the field of language learning and audio recording within the scope of WM-fr project LinguaLibre.
We may have met up at Wikimania 2008/2013/2014/2017/2018, Hackathons 2013/2014/2017/2018, Wikiconvention francophone 2016.
Interested by Keeping events safe/ & /Visual materials, Wikimédia_France/Actions
Previously: Creator, architect and long time editor of the Wiki-fr, Wiki-en en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab & en:Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop. Maintainer of the increasingly widespread Wikipedia Cartographic guidelines (best practices). Well aware of both the need of Wikipedia maps based on accurate geographic data (GIS) and their success within and outside Wikipedia. It seems clear we have to move toward ONLINE GIS edition in collaboration with the ongoing http://Sharemap.org initiative. This cloud system already allows to create online GIS maps and seriously need support (also financial), to connect with Wikipedia articles and map guidelines. For a more flexible, portability in and outside wikipedia and short term achievement in GIS map making, I designed the Grants:Individual Engagement Grants/Wikimaps Atlas's Request, lead with Arun Ganesh, a witty UX developper. In all, a solid funding for GIS projects would be much welcome in order to push forward and integrate GIS usages on Wikipedia, and design the road(s) to take.
Each map is a stack of separated layers. Each layer is one major step within the workflow of encyclopedic map making.
①: Layers from GIS data: ➊. NASA topographic data ; ➋. Shaded relief (processed from ➊); ➌. NaturalEarth political divisions and watersways; ➍. OSM roads and urban areas ; ➎. Reprojection (if needed); ➏. Layers' pilling & styling in vector editor; ②: Additional layers to design : ➐. Semantics: legends, icons, scale, north arrow, localizator, topographic legend are drag&drop-added, then selected & edited to create the needed toolbox; ➑. Addition of shapes & icons upon the map to represent the selected encyclopedic informations.
Thank you for commenting on Individual Engagement Grant proposals during this recent round! We really appreciate that you took the time to share your thoughts.
Thanks again for your help,
--Siko and Haitham, Wikimedia Foundation Grantmaking
Each map is a stack of separated layers. Each layer is one major step within the workflow of encyclopedic map making.
①: Layers from GIS data: ➊. NASA topographic data ; ➋. Shaded relief (processed from ➊); ➌. NaturalEarth political divisions and watersways; ➍. OSM roads and urban areas ; ➎. Reprojection (if needed); ➏. Layers' pilling & styling in vector editor;
