Hello Nouill! Thanks for reaching out!
With the tools that are on Tool Labs, the responsibility for maintenance is on the person who wrote the tool and put it on Tool Labs. For that, you can look at https://tools.wmflabs.org/. In this case, you can see that the people that wrote that tool are Magnus Manske and Kolossos. In the first instance, those would be the best people to reach out to with questions about it. There is a Labs Team <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Labs> at the Wikimedia Foundation, but their responsibility is maintaining the labs infrastructure. In the case of maps, the Discovery Department currently has a Maps Team <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Maps> which is working on maps-related tasks. Our goal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q1_Goals#Maps_.26_Geo> is to, by the end of September, deploy a new tile service to production which will be more robust and reliable than the existing services like GeoHack which are deployed to Labs. This will allow volunteer developers, like those that built GeoHack, to build more stable and appealing features. The Discovery Department has no plans to maintain GeoHack ourselves. Hopefully this answers your query. Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, Dan On 19 July 2015 at 07:26, Nou Nouill <nounou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi ! > > So today Geohack don't work few hours, once gain. It has been many times > that Geohack is down these last months (and years). The previous issue was > linked with the Tools labs problems (but not today, Tools Labs was > working). > > In addition to that maintenance problem, I don't see Geohack evolve those > last years. The tool have a old design. It has different configurations for > each language, so when a user do translation, he has to adapt to each > configuration. > Moreover, in plenty of language, Geohack have long lists of hundred links, > with lot of useless links, because languages communities want to describe > exhaustively web mappings service. So the presentation of Geohack is often > very weighed down. > > For me, Geohack is the more useful tools on Tools Labs with a massive > visibility for the viewers (each coordinate on WM use Geohack and there are > several hundred thousands coordinates). Geohack is also use by contributors > (when I translate a article with a coordinate, It's usually more practice > to check coordinate in Geohack). > > So, I want to ask if the Foundation have a plan to improve Geohack ? I have > the impression when I see https://tools.wmflabs.org that Geohack was > mainly > maintain by volunteer, but for me Geohack is a core item of the Wikimedia > sphere. So I don't understand that situation since few years. I hope it's > the place to do this comment. > > Nouill. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
