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
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