[Toolserver-l] Reminder: move your projects off stable -Geohack

[Tim Landscheidt]

Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:

>> perhaps this would be a good moment to transfer Geohack to a regular
>> mediawiki-extension on the main servers.

>> I hear this was also the plan of brion vibber before he go.
>> Who we need to ask now for this?

> I asked Brion on the Paris meeting and he said he'd have a look. But,
> I didn't hear anything back, so I assume he didn't.

> wikimedia.org doesn't list an official CTO, so for the time being, I
> guess Tim Starling is the person to ask.

> Last time I had a long look at the code, the extension part seemed to
> be in good condition. One half is using it as a special page (just a
> wrapper around the current code calls), and getting the wiki template
> from the cache instead of the http rendering.

> Compatability might have deteriorated since then, though.
> [...]

I had a look at the code one or two years ago, and started a
small DWIM-and-nothing-more extension "Mapsources" along the
lines of "Booksources" that "called" a template with the co-
ordinates as parameters so that you could use all of Media-
Wiki's parser functions & Co. in it. The idea would have
been to extend it eventually to have the list of map sources
ordered by the region of the individual coordinate and by
user preference (Swiss coordinates: Swisstopo, British coor-
dinates: Ordnance Survey, etc.) with a timeout so that if
you don't react within x seconds the first map source is
chosen.

  But #1, then I stumbled upon a post of yours where you
pointed out that Special:TemplateLink would be much more
suitable to replace the whole Geohack shebang, and I think
you were right.

  But #2, with all the work going on with OSM and the Maps
extension, wouldn't it be wiser to integrate Geohack's func-
tionality with the later?

Tim
(f'uping to wikitech-l)