Ed Summers, 23/04/2013 10:32: Nice! More powerful (?) but less immediate, there's also https://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikishootme/index.html Nemo

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: -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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 :)

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote: I finally got around to updating ici (map of nearby Wikipedia articles) to use the GeoData extension rather than the separate Geonames service: http://inkdroid.org/ici/ This was a nice change not only for accuracy/currency of information, but because it allowed me to display different markers for articles that need copy-editing and/or citations, as well as those that need images (which it displayed previously). Suggestions for different templates to recognize [2] and mark on the map are welcome, as are any other suggestions. //Ed [1] http://inkdroid.org/ici/ [2] https://github.com/edsu/ici/blob/master/js/app.coffee#L168

Cool, I'm glad that worked. If there are other article templates that I can detect and display different icons for on the map definitely let me know. //Ed On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Awesome, Ed! This is really cool. > > I really like the different icons for different needed actions - I know you > had the 'needs a photo' icon previously, but I just noticed a 'citation > needed' icon near me :) > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> I finally got around to updating ici (map of nearby Wikipedia >> articles) to use the GeoData extension rather than the separate >> Geonames service: >> >> http://inkdroid.org/ici/ >> >> This was a nice change not only for accuracy/currency of information, >> but because it allowed me to display different markers for articles >> that need copy-editing and/or citations, as well as those that need >> images (which it displayed previously). Suggestions for different >> templates to recognize [2] and mark on the map are welcome, as are any >> other suggestions. >> >> //Ed >> >> [1] http://inkdroid.org/ici/ >> [2] https://github.com/edsu/ici/blob/master/js/app.coffee#L168 > > > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687