Hello everyone!
At the beginning of August I also brought to you an important update related to Interactive Maps. Today we have another new and exciting announcement! After a successful period of community testing, just now you can use the new ways to embed maps on article pages from all the wikis!
In this example, the map is integrated next to a text column to optimize the full width of the content area.
Since the implementation of Interactive Maps back in 2022, once you created a map on its own map namespace, you were only able to embed it on an article page using the full width of the page or using CSS or other tweaks. For the 2024 roadmap of the Engagement Team, offering native solutions for customizable embedded maps was one of their priorities.
These new options were ready back in June, but instead of a full release, we opted to start with a testing period, asking some volunteer communities to use them on their pages, and send us back their feedback, comments and suggestions. We really appreciate these efforts from our beloved editors and admins, because their collaboration has been vital to currently offer a better experience.
To mention a few examples, during these two months we have been adding wikitext support to map captions, we added tooltips, and we refined the width parameter to match with the whole map container.
If you would like to know more details about how to embed maps on pages, you can take a look at the related Help Page about Interactive Maps, with an updated section about these recent improvements.
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