...and it seems that I failed to install the Maps extension for my #MediaWiki installation successfully.

It shows up in my Special:Version page as installed:

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Special:Version

But when I actually try to use it, I get a fatal error.

Does anyone with experience with MediaWiki have a suggestion on how to proceed? Otherwise I might have to scrap this attempt and revert to a previous version.

...and it seems that I failed to install the Maps extension for my #MediaWiki installation successfully.

It shows up in my Special:Version page as installed:

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Special:Version

But when I actually try to use it, I get a fatal error.

Does anyone with experience with MediaWiki have a suggestion on how to proceed? Otherwise I might have to scrap this attempt and revert to a previous version.

83 folk tales on the wiki so far. I probably won't make it to the full 100 before I leave for my vacation this Saturday - but still, not bad for the first month.

I hope that when I get back #SemanticMediaWiki will have released a version that works with my #MediaWiki installation. Then I can start working on adding some interactive maps.

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Category:Folk_Tale

83 folk tales on the wiki so far. I probably won't make it to the full 100 before I leave for my vacation this Saturday - but still, not bad for the first month.

I hope that when I get back #SemanticMediaWiki will have released a version that works with my #MediaWiki installation. Then I can start working on adding some interactive maps.

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Category:Folk_Tale

I've been looking at assorted ways how to (a) replace my German Folklore Map with something #OpenStreetMap -based (b) making it filterable based on narrative elements (such as "dragon", "treasure", and so forth), and (c) integrating it into my new #Mediawiki wiki.

Based on my investigations so far, I think my best bet is to put all the map information into a #GeoJSON files, and add the element I want to filter by as Properties of the elements.

The trick seems to be which Mediawiki extensions - Map, Kartogtapher and so forth - allow me to filter these Properties so that I can create a custom map that (for example) only displays all markers tagged with "dragon" without having to create a custom GeoJSON file for each variant map.

Can anyone help me out?

https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

I've been looking at assorted ways how to (a) replace my German Folklore Map with something #OpenStreetMap -based (b) making it filterable based on narrative elements (such as "dragon", "treasure", and so forth), and (c) integrating it into my new #Mediawiki wiki.

Based on my investigations so far, I think my best bet is to put all the map information into a #GeoJSON files, and add the element I want to filter by as Properties of the elements.

The trick seems to be which Mediawiki extensions - Map, Kartogtapher and so forth - allow me to filter these Properties so that I can create a custom map that (for example) only displays all markers tagged with "dragon" without having to create a custom GeoJSON file for each variant map.

Can anyone help me out?

https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

I am still planning a replacement for my Google MyMaps map of German folk tales, one based on #OpenStreetMap .

Reuirements include:

- I should not be required to host an entire map server.
- I should be able to integrate the maps into #MediaWiki wiki pages via plugins.

Last time I asked this question, I got a couple of good suggestions such as Umap and Leaflet that might fit the bill. However, since then I thought of a further requirement that would be really useful for me:

Filterable tags for markers.

Let me explain: I want to put a bunch of markers on the map, and each refers to a folk tale. And then I want to tag some of them with "dragon", "witch", "treasure" and so forth - and then people should be able to filter them by these tags, so that only those tales that feature "dragons" or whatever on the map.

On the other hand, maybe people want to filter the tales by the book in which they first appeared, such as "Deutsche Sagen" by the Brothers Grimm. However, this means that those tags cannot be mutually exclusive - a tale might either feature a dragon or be from "Deutsche Sagen", it might be both, or neither.

If there is truly no other way of doing this, I might have to do these "filters" as separate maps instead. But I really don't want to do this the hard way unless I absolutely have to. So, can anyone help?

#map #maps #cartography
https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

I am still planning a replacement for my Google MyMaps map of German folk tales, one based on #OpenStreetMap .

Reuirements include:

- I should not be required to host an entire map server.
- I should be able to integrate the maps into #MediaWiki wiki pages via plugins.

Last time I asked this question, I got a couple of good suggestions such as Umap and Leaflet that might fit the bill. However, since then I thought of a further requirement that would be really useful for me:

Filterable tags for markers.

Let me explain: I want to put a bunch of markers on the map, and each refers to a folk tale. And then I want to tag some of them with "dragon", "witch", "treasure" and so forth - and then people should be able to filter them by these tags, so that only those tales that feature "dragons" or whatever on the map.

On the other hand, maybe people want to filter the tales by the book in which they first appeared, such as "Deutsche Sagen" by the Brothers Grimm. However, this means that those tags cannot be mutually exclusive - a tale might either feature a dragon or be from "Deutsche Sagen", it might be both, or neither.

If there is truly no other way of doing this, I might have to do these "filters" as separate maps instead. But I really don't want to do this the hard way unless I absolutely have to. So, can anyone help?

#map #maps #cartography
https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

Dear #mediawiki#VisualEditor, why must you the URLs in my copy and paste, forcing me to re-insert them just so they become links?

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghosts%27_Meal

I'm going to try to install #MediaWiki on a server, something I have only done once before, more than a year ago.

Wish me luck!