Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> perhaps this would be a good moment to transfer
Geohack to a regular
> mediawiki-extension on the main servers.
> I hear this was also the plan of brion vibber
before he go.
> Who we need to ask now for this?
I asked Brion on the Paris meeting and he said
he'd have a look. But,
I didn't hear anything back, so I assume he didn't.
wikimedia.org doesn't list an official CTO, so for
the time being, I
guess Tim Starling is the person to ask.
Last time I had a long look at the code, the extension
part seemed to
be in good condition. One half is using it as a special page (just a
wrapper around the current code calls), and getting the wiki template
from the cache instead of the http rendering.
Compatability might have deteriorated since then,
though.
[...]
I had a look at the code one or two years ago, and started a
small DWIM-and-nothing-more extension "Mapsources" along the
lines of "Booksources" that "called" a template with the co-
ordinates as parameters so that you could use all of Media-
Wiki's parser functions & Co. in it. The idea would have
been to extend it eventually to have the list of map sources
ordered by the region of the individual coordinate and by
user preference (Swiss coordinates: Swisstopo, British coor-
dinates: Ordnance Survey, etc.) with a timeout so that if
you don't react within x seconds the first map source is
chosen.
But #1, then I stumbled upon a post of yours where you
pointed out that Special:TemplateLink would be much more
suitable to replace the whole Geohack shebang, and I think
you were right.
But #2, with all the work going on with OSM and the Maps
extension, wouldn't it be wiser to integrate Geohack's func-
tionality with the later?
Tim
(f'uping to wikitech-l)