Toby, is there any chance that the Reading team (or maybe Multimedia or Discovery?) will incorporate more intractive features or realtime geo-relevant into Wikipedia with information like weather, air and marine traffic, bus and train service (particularly for landmarks with lots of tourists), star and sattelite positions in the sky, socioeconomic data maps, financial statistics, etc?
Thanks, Pine On Aug 13, 2015 2:22 PM, "Pine W" <[email protected]> wrote: > It's great to hear that work is progressing on this. > > I'd like to see more interactive features on pages, for example live air > traffic, ground traffic, and marine traffic data; and weather conditions. > > Pine > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Pine, you are right. That list is not very useful, and instead should look >> something like this: >> >> https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Salzburg#Get_around >> >> The bad news is that the tile service it uses is hosted on labs, which >> means it cannot scale to the regular wikipedia-usage levels. Plus there >> might be a potential policy problem there - default lab-content loading on >> every page visit without user's consent. >> >> The good news is that we are very close to launching a full-blown WMF >> production-hosted tile service, based on the wonderful data from OSM. >> >> See general info and some ideas people have proposed - >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps (feel free to add more) >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > I just now realized how powerful these tools are when I started >> clicking >> > > around. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=File%3AWhite-cheeked_Starling_perching_on_a_rock.jpg¶ms=34.610576_N_135.540542_E_globe:Earth_class:object_&language=en >> > > >> > > Is there any chance of integrating some of these tools more directly >> onto >> > > Wikipedia pages, and into mobile web/mobile apps? >> > > >> > >> > There is an ongoing project >> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1127/> to integrate >> > maps >> > into MediaWiki; that's probably the best place to catalog the use cases >> of >> > Geohack and decide which can and need to be supported by the new tools. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
