Hey Ed! Saw your link on Twitter - this is great stuff! The mobile team is thinking about similar things (see the nearby [1] feature) so it would be great to get your input / dev time if you are interested in helping out there. There's loads of things we could do with help on such as native maps apps integration to get directions and caching / article previewing.
In terms of your question regarding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_%28sculpture%29 - currently the API doesn't provide a way to insert images into infoboxes. Uploading images by prepending them to the lead section is currently what we are doing as that is easy and we feared if we inserted them above an infobox this would require someone to move it into the infobox which might annoy existing editors. As a result the lead image upload button does not show on any articles which have infoboxes. It would be great to review this - maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing? Does anyone fancy exploring whether such a thing could be made possibly with the api? Out of interest were you aware of the GeoData extension? If so what made you decide to use geonames instead? Was it due to a nicer/more discoverable api experience. Would be great to improve the GeoData extension if necessary. Keep up the wikipedia/geo mashing up :) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby?mobileaction=beta On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > This is great! We need to continue improving how we detect which articles > need a lead image - this is in the mobile web team's backlog of things to > do. > > In the beta version of the mobile site, we actually expose similar > functionality (hopefully it will graduate to stable in the > not-to-distant-future). If you opt in to the beta site (nav menu -> settings > -> select beta), you will see a new item in the nav called 'Nearby'. This > uses the GeoData extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData) > to find articles near your current location. You'll note that articles with > a lead image are displayed with a thumbnail of that image in the nearby list > - if they do not have an image, a camera icon is displayed again (with the > intention of making it easy to identify nearby articles missing photos). > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Ed Summers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nice! Do you use the Geonames lookup as well, or do you have some >> other way of identifying articles relevant for a particular location? >> >> //Ed >> >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Ed Summers, 23/04/2013 10:32: >> > >> >> The "add image to article" functionality in the mobile view is such an >> >> awesome idea. I liked it so much I created a simple page suitable for >> >> viewing on a mobile device that highlights local articles that need an >> >> image: >> >> >> >> http://inkdroid.org/ici/ >> > >> > >> > Nice! More powerful (?) but less immediate, there's also >> > https://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikishootme/index.html >> > >> > Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
