Milos, all,
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals/Weather_tracking
I propose we ask to get this done properly - rather than abusing MediaWiki to store weather data.
The proposal could do with some fleshing out.
Brian.
-----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic Sent: 17 July 2009 22:15 To: Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Weather bot
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Brian McNeilbrian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
If you go up a page from Milos' detailed list there's a world map with temperatures. This looks very like the old WeatherChecker output but I
think
it's really overlaid temp. numbers. The whole thing looks really good, but pictorial form is what most people are used to digesting weather data in.
I've seen that map now... This is "Template:Weather/world map" [1]. I didn't do that; it was done by one of the previous leads of sr.wn. According to the map type, it seems to me very easy to make it to work for all regions (i.e. I suppose that there are regional and country maps which may be used with geographical coordinates, too).
BTW, I've stopped for a while to work on the Weather bot because of my personal duties, but I'll continue with it next week.
The last information about the Weather bot, which I gathered, is that I may make it more efficient with forking bot processes (processor, memory and bandwidth consumption are not relevant; just Wikimedia servers behavior is relevant). That means that I would be probably able to make "the basic useful generic bot" which would generate data for the biggest cities in the world, and regional/continental biggest cities/capitols -- and run it from my server for all Wikinews editions. And if someone is willing to make more specific bot for their own Wikinews, they should do that from their own server.
I have to abstract localization better, too. (Basically, it works, but it is not so easy to localize the bot; note that English has to be localized, too, even keys are in English.)
[1] http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:%D0%92%D1%8 0%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5/%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0
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