Hoi,
The best place for such an effort would be Wikidata.. There are many units
that could do with some TLC. Particularly with the arrival of values in
Wikidata it is expedient to do this.
One other area where attention would be relevant are dates.. Did you know
that some calendars (that are used) have cycles of sixty years ??
Thanks,
Gerard
On 17 January 2014 09:59, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> there could be even some cool javascript based toolbar that would
> allow people to switch the unit, or see unit hint when they roll over
> the text
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> > .Hi,
> >
> > There are many articles on wikipedia that contain different units.
> > Some use cm, that are common in europe, other use inches that are more
> > widely used in US, same with other unit types.
> >
> > I think it would be cool if an extension was created which would allow
> > everyone to specify what units they prefer, and the values in articles
> > would be converted automatically based on preference.
> >
> > For example you would say the object has width of {{unit|cm=20}} and
> > people who prefer cm would see 20 cm in article text, but people who
> > prefer inches would see 7.87 inch. This could be even based on
> > geolocation for IP users
> >
> > What do you think?
>
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