Wikimedia Maps: Challenges & Insights 🗺️

Title: Understanding Wikimedia Maps and its challenges

Speaker: Mateus Santos, Software Engineer

Description: The WMF Product Infrastructure Team has been maintaining the Wikimedia Maps service for the last year and a half with help from SRE. This talk will share the challenges and work of creating a better development environment to enhance productivity, solve technical debt and keep up with platform modernization.


Link to the slides used in the talk: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maps_Tech_Talk.pdf


 During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at #wikimedia-office or in the Youtube Livestream chat.

You can watch past Tech Talks here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks

If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Tech_talks

Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate email and social channels!