Le 17/01/14 09:58, Petr Bena a écrit : > 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
Hello, I like the idea. One thing to take in account is that the unit conversion should be done on the client side to avoid fragmentation of the parser cache. A possibility would be for the template to output BOTH metrics and imperial units, then use JS/CSS to hide the irrelevant one. Hence {{unit|cm=20}} would generate something like: <span class="mw-unitsystem-imperial">7,874 inches</span> <span class="mw-unitsystem-metric">20 cm</span> Then using user preference to hide one of the class. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l