Hi
I just wanted to ask on [1] if we could include geocoding [2] as an optional parameter in Tempalate:Information [3]. Now I see that somebody else has asked this question some months ago without getting a response. What's so diffucult in including the basic image information in Template:Information?
The current solution looks ugly specially when [2] is above [3]. But also vice versa it would look nicer when we had one single template.
Regards
Robin
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Information#including_.7B.7B... [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Location [3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.ch wrote:
Hi
I just wanted to ask on [1] if we could include geocoding [2] as an optional parameter in Tempalate:Information [3]. Now I see that somebody else has asked this question some months ago without getting a response. What's so diffucult in including the basic image information in Template:Information?
The current solution looks ugly specially when [2] is above [3]. But also vice versa it would look nicer when we had one single template.
Just shows that tastes differ: I think the geocoding templates have historically looked much better on top. (Though it's recently been degraded by the addition of needless whitespace and links to google which almost completely obscure our own built in popup mapping functionality— lame lame lame, click the blue sphere for it, not the numbers)
In general a proliferation of geocoding templates should be aggressively discouraged since it makes machine parsing of the information very difficult. ... but support in information wouldn't be bad except for the fact that there still exist many (sometimes personal) information forks.
The problem is that {{Information}} uses variables by name where as {{Location}} uses variables by number. Mixing these two is a very bad idea. So if we were to include the location based data into information we'd have to make it look something like this:
{{Information |Description={{en|Picture of the main Headframe at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park.}} |Source=Self-Made |Date=2004-07-20 |Author=[[User:ShakataGaNai|ShakataGaNai]] |Permission= |other_versions= |Latd=47 |Latm=49 |Lats=10.8 |LatDirection=N |Lond=92 |Lonm=14 |Lons=31.6 |LonDirection=W }}
That's not terribly friendly to deal with. Plus both templates have some other optional components so it could be even longer than that.
BUT the biggest problem is that the tools are already there for {{Location}} in it's current form. By tools I mean the little Javascript bits for Google Maps, or the file plugins for Google Earth - the tools that generate the entire completed {{Location}}.
-Jon User:ShakataGaNai
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:49, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.ch wrote:
Hi
I just wanted to ask on [1] if we could include geocoding [2] as an optional parameter in Tempalate:Information [3]. Now I see that somebody else has asked this question some months ago without getting a response. What's so diffucult in including the basic image information in Template:Information?
The current solution looks ugly specially when [2] is above [3]. But also vice versa it would look nicer when we had one single template.
Regards
Robin
[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Information#including_.7B.7B... [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Location [3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information
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