And is that migration complete ? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > They will be gone with Solr (or its schema, ro be precise). > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So are their any technical limitations to experiment with both right now? >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm saying there is use cases for both. >> > >> > I would expect a site wide nearby feature to help me discover new >> > places nearby that I should visit (Wikivoyage even has a 'Go next' >> > section which does this) >> > >> > When I'm in a place, on the page itself I would like to be able to see >> > map that helps me explore a city and find places to eat. >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> I imagine that if someone's in London they're much more likely to be >> >> interested in finding a place to see or to eat at rather than to find a >> >> next >> >> city for their trip. Unless all their touristic goals consist of >> >> putting >> >> check marks near city names in a looong list:) >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I'm not sure we'd want to bring in secondary points - I can imagine >> >>> the real use of Special:Nearby on Wikivoyage is for travellers who are >> >>> looking for places to go to next that are nearby e.g. by train/bus. >> >>> Somewhere like London would report Cambridge, Stonehenge or Oxford as >> >>> being nearby even though they are 60+ miles apart.. yet currently it >> >>> only shows 8 districts in London. >> >>> >> >>> I imagine something like the in article Nearby pages that we >> >>> currently have in beta would be a better vehicle for secondary >> >>> points... >> >>> >> >>> Is there anyway we can guide a volunteer developer to do this and is >> >>> anyone interested? I'd love to see this moved along and give WV the >> >>> nearby it deserves. >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> >> >>> > wrote: >> >>> >> >> >>> >> Actually my question is about further tweaking this... please >> >>> >> reread my >> >>> >> email. >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > D'oh! >> >>> > >> >>> > So the problem is not in radius but in what to display. >> >>> > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/784 >> >>> > discusses how geo search can be made more useful for WV. Our present >> >>> > Nearby >> >>> > implementation that searches for primary coordinaes only is not >> >>> > helpful >> >>> > because the wiki consists of large pages with a lot of POIs around. >> >>> > My >> >>> > current work on porting to Elasticsearch would allow a sane spatial >> >>> > search >> >>> > for secondary coordinates, once it's complete we can experiment with >> >>> > adding >> >>> > a Wikiversity-specific mode for Nearby. With a lot of points around, >> >>> > there >> >>> > should be no need to have a continent-sized radius. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Jon Robson >> >>> * http://jonrobson.me.uk >> >>> * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson >> >>> * @rakugojon >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Jon Robson >> > * http://jonrobson.me.uk >> > * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson >> > * @rakugojon > >
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