GeoData Storage & API/status

Last update on: 2013-01-monthly

2012-03-31
Further development is now pending testing to see how well it works with our apps

2012-04-monthly
Further development is still pending testing to see how well it works with our apps.

2012-06-20
The extension is ready for deployment, we're waiting for hardware to run geospatial searches

2012-10-monthly
GeoData has been rewritten to support spatial searches via Solr; we are working with the Operations team to prepare for deployment.

2012-11-monthly
We plan to start deploying Solr-based GeoData in early December.

2012-12-monthly
During December Max Semenik continued work on GeoData, the extension directly responsible for allowing us to easily store and retrieve GPS coordinates in our databases. Max migrated the extension from implementation, to code review, and finally deployment to the English Wikipedia. It will become 100% production-quality after a few more tweaks and fixes. After those changes, we'll continue to roll out to the rest of the wikis. The extension is one of the precursors to having the "near by" feature on our mobile web site.

2013-01-monthly
After more than a month of black-deployment, GeoData officially went into production on January 31 after an announcement on Wikimedia Blog. Work on improvements/bug fixing continues.

The first consumer of this in the mobile projects was the Special:Nearby page which has been deployed to an experimental version of the site. We hope to use it to help identify articles in need of photos to aid our photo upload target.