Discovery is currently working on a maps service, which is a first step towards "geo-relevant" information, but the plan is to put that on hold for Q2 (read: the next 3 months) while we identify a clearer use case for it. If you or anyone else are interested in this kind of project (or in the functioning of our search service) I recommend subscribing to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search
On 18 August 2015 at 06:09, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
