Hey Ed!
Saw your link on Twitter - this is great stuff! The mobile team is
thinking about similar things (see the nearby [1] feature) so it would
be great to get your input / dev time if you are interested in helping
out there. There's loads of things we could do with help on such as
native maps apps integration to get directions and caching / article
previewing.
In terms of your question regarding
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_%28sculpture%29 - currently
the API doesn't provide a way to insert images into infoboxes.
Uploading images by prepending them to the lead section is currently
what we are doing as that is easy and we feared if we inserted them
above an infobox this would require someone to move it into the
infobox which might annoy existing editors. As a result the lead image
upload button does not show on any articles which have infoboxes. It
would be great to review this - maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing?
Does anyone fancy exploring whether such a thing could be made
possibly with the api?
Out of interest were you aware of the GeoData extension? If so what
made you decide to use geonames instead? Was it due to a nicer/more
discoverable api experience. Would be great to improve the GeoData
extension if necessary.
Keep up the wikipedia/geo mashing up :)
[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby?mobileaction=beta
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Arthur Richards
<arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This is great! We need to continue improving how we
detect which articles
need a lead image - this is in the mobile web team's backlog of things to
do.
In the beta version of the mobile site, we actually expose similar
functionality (hopefully it will graduate to stable in the
not-to-distant-future). If you opt in to the beta site (nav menu -> settings
-> select beta), you will see a new item in the nav called 'Nearby'. This
uses the GeoData extension (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData)
to find articles near your current location. You'll note that articles with
a lead image are displayed with a thumbnail of that image in the nearby list
- if they do not have an image, a camera icon is displayed again (with the
intention of making it easy to identify nearby articles missing photos).
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Nice! Do you use the Geonames lookup as well, or do you have some
other way of identifying articles relevant for a particular location?
//Ed
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ed Summers, 23/04/2013 10:32:
The "add image to article"
functionality in the mobile view is such an
awesome idea. I liked it so much I created a simple page suitable for
viewing on a mobile device that highlights local articles that need an
image:
http://inkdroid.org/ici/
Nice! More powerful (?) but less immediate, there's also
https://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikishootme/index.html
Nemo
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