Le 17/01/14 09:58, Petr Bena a écrit :
There are many articles on wikipedia that contain
different units.
Some use cm, that are common in europe, other use inches that are more
widely used in US, same with other unit types.
I think it would be cool if an extension was created which would allow
everyone to specify what units they prefer, and the values in articles
would be converted automatically based on preference.
For example you would say the object has width of {{unit|cm=20}} and
people who prefer cm would see 20 cm in article text, but people who
prefer inches would see 7.87 inch. This could be even based on
geolocation for IP users
Hello,
I like the idea. One thing to take in account is that the unit
conversion should be done on the client side to avoid fragmentation of
the parser cache.
A possibility would be for the template to output BOTH metrics and
imperial units, then use JS/CSS to hide the irrelevant one. Hence
{{unit|cm=20}} would generate something like:
<span class="mw-unitsystem-imperial">7,874 inches</span>
<span class="mw-unitsystem-metric">20 cm</span>
Then using user preference to hide one of the class.
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Antoine "hashar" Musso