Hi,
Just a quick thought about the recent change feed [1]. Wouldn't it be interesting to transform it in a GeoRSS [2]?
This would be done by adding the coordinate from the articles, if available, and/or by using rssToGeo [3] where coordinates are unavailable? I'm not necessarily looking to get that included in MediaWiki, but I would like to see if creating a "recent changes on a map" service would be useful to someone.
Thanks for your feedback, Strainu
[1] http://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Schimb%E3ri_recente&fe... [2] http://georss.org/Main_Page [3] http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html
Strainu (2011-08-20 23:53):
Hi,
Just a quick thought about the recent change feed [1]. Wouldn't it be interesting to transform it in a GeoRSS [2]?
This would be done by adding the coordinate from the articles, if available, and/or by using rssToGeo [3] where coordinates are unavailable? I'm not necessarily looking to get that included in MediaWiki, but I would like to see if creating a "recent changes on a map" service would be useful to someone.
I think this might be useful if one would be able to choose some region on a map and create and RSS for this region only (something like "changes in my neighbourhood").
Cheers, Nux.
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Just a quick thought about the recent change feed [1]. Wouldn't it be interesting to transform it in a GeoRSS [2]?
This would be done by adding the coordinate from the articles, if available, and/or by using rssToGeo [3] where coordinates are unavailable? I'm not necessarily looking to get that included in MediaWiki, but I would like to see if creating a "recent changes on a map" service would be useful to someone.
For showing the locations of things the articles are about? This might be neat-ish for some uses, whenever MediaWiki ends up actually natively supporting geolocation data...! :)
I'm not sure how actually useful it would be though; the raw RSS feeds are pretty poor anyway as the number of items available in say RecentChanges is tiny compared to the edit rates, and the location of things whose articles are being edited doesn't necessarily provide a lot of useful information about ongoing editing activity.
-- brion
"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
BV> I'm not sure how actually useful it would be though; the raw RSS feeds are BV> pretty poor anyway as the number of items available in say RecentChanges is BV> tiny compared to the edit rates, and the location of things whose articles BV> are being edited doesn't necessarily provide a lot of useful information BV> about ongoing editing activity.
Hmm, a police scanner wiki where each page represented a district office, with low edit rates, might seem a good candidate, http://jidanni.org/comp/wiki/article-category.html . But I don't think I will bother to add geolocation myself.
2011/8/31 jidanni@jidanni.org:
"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
BV> I'm not sure how actually useful it would be though; the raw RSS feeds are BV> pretty poor anyway as the number of items available in say RecentChanges is BV> tiny compared to the edit rates, and the location of things whose articles BV> are being edited doesn't necessarily provide a lot of useful information BV> about ongoing editing activity.
Hmm, a police scanner wiki where each page represented a district office, with low edit rates, might seem a good candidate, http://jidanni.org/comp/wiki/article-category.html . But I don't think I will bother to add geolocation myself.
Thanks all for your feedback. It seems that there is some potential on this idea, so after I'm done with Wiki Loves Monuments I'll try to put up a demo. I'll let you know the output.
Strainu
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