Enwiki's {{convert}} template is a behemoth of a structure which is intended to do this. I once made an attempt to write a PHP-side extension to do it (look at the revision history of the ParserFunctions extension), but it never took off [1]. I don't think there was ever any enthusiasm to take the ability to "tinker" with the formatting and output ({{convert}} has a million and one different stylistic variations and parameters) away from wiki template editors.
--HM
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40039
On 17 January 2014 10:56, Jasper Deng jasper@jasperswebsite.com wrote:
I would like to ask, how are significant figures going to be dealt with? 300 could mean anything from one to three significant figures, for example.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis < marcoil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
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 is a great idea! As proposed it'd be very helpful, but maybe it'd be better if it showed the original text and a conversion on mouse-over
(maybe
with a small icon to indicate it, like external links).
This could be even based on geolocation for IP users
Oh, please, don't use IP geolocation for anything. It's terrible for
people
travelling, using proxies, living abroad, living in places where more
than
one languages are commonly spoken, learning new languages… If you want to get an initial default, use Accept-Language (like, inches for en-US and
cm
for anyone else :) and allow the user to modify it.
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