https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21295
Summary: Geolocation on CentralNotice
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: CentralNotice
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
At the moment, CentralNotice displays on a per-language basis, due to the
organization of Wikimedia wikis. However, it would be useful if it were
possible to display a notice to only a geographical area, e.g. if there is an
upcoming or ongoing event in that area. The logical way to do this would be to
link CentralNotice with Geolocation.
Geolocation is already done on en.wp watchlist notifications, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice
This also gives a flavour for the type of notice that this feature would be
useful for. The major drawbacks with the current method are 1. the lack of
visibility (the watchlist page, whilst high traffic, does not have the same
visibility as the whole of the site), and 2. It only displays the information
to registered and logged in users.
Geolocation currently runs on the Toolserver, so it would need to be installed
on Wikimedia servers first. I believe that work is being done to this end for
the 2009-2010 winter fundraising drive.
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