Hi,

There's this bug:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35704

Basically, the "Nearby" function in the Wikipedia Android app can only work
if the coordinates template in the Wikipedia in the relevant language uses
the magic word from the GeoData extension.

And I wonder: Is this really needed? Updating templates in almost 300
languages doesn't scale well, and Wikidata already supports coordinates. It
also makes more general sense to me to query a structured database like
Wikidata instead of poking around with templates and magic words as it is
done with GeoData.

But that's me, and I might be missing something.

Is Wikidata actually ready for this technically?
Are coordinates filled for all the relevant items, or is it still better
supported in Wikipedias?

Thanks.

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