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TASK DESCRIPTION[[Module:Infobox gene]] in enwiki generates an infobox by pulling data directly from Wikidata. However, editors
Arthur2e5 changed the title from "Allow alternative site ids (interwiki) in mw.wikibase.{label,sitelink} Lua API" to "Allow alternative (interwiki) site ids in mw.wikibase.{label,sitelink} Lua API".
TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148115EM
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For people looking for a solution for now, I have set up a simple user gadget for conversion (web version). I have added links to the web version to the CN section for GeoTemplate on zhwiki and enwiki. I am planning on adding the said map previews to the web demo
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Good question. With my AGF hat on, I would say that maps served in mainland China, Google or Baidu, also provide distorted/shift aerial imagery to mask the deviation applied, so "good guys" who look for places on the wrong aerial map are still screwed. With th
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Regarding precision, I think Wikidata is already doing some such recording for Earth geographic coordinates. That should be applicable to celestial coordinates.
In T127950#3123960, @Liuxinyu970226 wrote:
Maybe this can also help users from Mainland China a lot
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A bit of addition to that "AGF hat" part. It turns out that these twisted variations of WGS-84 do see widespread use out of map vendors' maps, and that's not limited to the gov's mandatory GCJ-02. Ningbo Government'
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I doubt that proposal's usefulness in our case, as WGS84-like (including ITRS) lat-lon is fairly ubiquitous on our planet. Adding a property for solving Earth problems also means complicating things like Template:Coord, which is something I don't want to do for "sy
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CHANGES TO TASK DESCRIPTION...Thanks to @Liuxinyu970226 for bringing this up in T127950#3123960. Previous discussions: [on enwp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dispenser#Providing_.22.28Chinese.29_mars_coordinates
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For now at least GCJ-02 data can be justified since stuff like Geolocator and Coordinates use Google Maps. Baidu also has some click-to-see-coord feature, so I guess BD-09 data, although definitely limited to one proprietrary source that everyone uses, may be justfied
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CHANGES TO TASK DESCRIPTION...The "Chinese" part mentioned above can be done simply with Google's Geocoding API's `region` output. It excludes MO, HK, TW, disputed territory which Google didn't buy data from Chinese sources for
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