2014-04-02 16:36 GMT+03:00 Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com:

On 02.04.2014, 17:32 Strainu wrote:

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Yes. And that would be more useful than a map with a single coordinate of whatever happens to be the first mountain in the list.

Nope, lists should have no primary coordinates at all. Still, what's the real use case for such lists with unnamed points other than "because we can"?:)

Can we please keep the discussion on list?

First of all, I don't think the use-case I presented is equivalent to "because we can". But here is another usecase: When I parse coordinates from articles or pictures, I try to get them from the database because it's faster and more reliable than parsing the geohack link. If tomorrow 90% of that database dissapears because it has no "name" (something I couldn't care less about) and some obscure template does not mark the coordinates as primary, the running time of my robots will probably increase by 30-50%.

Adding names to coordinates is not something most people do, at least on small wikis. I admit I have no idea how to do it. If I'll ever feel the need, I'll read the docs and apply the method, but I can't send everybody to read technical documentation just because you decided to remove a feature that works fine just because you think it's "useless".

From the moment the feature went live on the Wikimedia sites, it is at

the very least preferable, if not compulsory to think about backwards compatibility and only remove a feature if we're reasonably sure we're not going to affect a lot of people.

Strainu