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This was created after a question at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Archive/2016/02#Celestial_coordinates I also just came across https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Archive/2013/09#Celestial_coordinate_system and found a mention of celestial coordinates on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56097. Regarding Lydia's question on the first link. I think it can't be done satisfactorily by simply using the existing coordinates implementation with a different globe because of the different expectations for inputting/outputting values, but it seems like it could probably be done by extending the existing coordinates support. The things I can see that are clearly missing are: - support for inputting values in the expected format - support for outputting values in the expected format - support for changing the globe (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56097) - an agreement on what to use as a globe I'm not an expert on the subject though, so maybe I'm missing something. :) On a related note, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_supernova includes Galactic coordinates (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1885A). As I understand it, those use a system with 0° to 360° for longitude and 90° to -90° for latitude - closer to geographic coordinates but still with different expectations for input/output. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127950 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Nikki Cc: Jc3s5h, Swpb, Nikki, Aklapper, Micru, StudiesWorld, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331 _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
