Daniel Schwen wrote:
> Yes I should, and I thought I already told you that this is what I'm doing 
> for 
> the english wikipedia and for commons. And I also set up a page explaining 
> why this is quiite a lot of work, and how people can help me with this, if 
> they want faster updates for their language. 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas/CoordinateProcessing
> I guess I'll have to make this more public....

After reading it I still don't know what do you need/how to provide it :/

I have been poking WikiMiniAtlas and filed several related bugs, though.

>> And when WikiMiniAtlas is invoked from an article, such as
>> Grängesberg, the call to the toolserver (that fetches the map
>> tiles) could perhaps be used for updating the coordinate for that
>> article.  We can be pretty sure that those who update a coordinate
>> will pop up the WikiMiniAtlas to see they made no mistake.
> Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I even used to have a Javascript gadget that 
> sent 
> the data to the toolserver, whenever a coordinate in an article was updated. 
> In any case, the red dot, is generated on the the client side and will always 
> use the most up to date coordinates.
> 
> Dschwen

Doing that automatically on requests would allow anyone to
subrepticiously change all coordinates. What you could do is make the
requests with a different coordinate to trigger an update for that page.


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