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is that a general problem, or just affecting me?
Also, the web version of Nick's replay appears to have no content from him, only his quote of my message:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-June/031547.html
In message JNEIKFDPGFACDNNDIHNMKEIHELAA.nickpj@gmail.com, Nick Jenkins nickpj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes
Almost two months ago, User:GMaxwell undertook to arrange for Google to read the new 'coord' template:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord>
when they parse the raw Wikipedia data for their Google Earth Wikipedia layer.
Unfortunately, he hasn't posted for some time (I do hope he's OK).
Can someone else pick up that baton, please, or advise me who to contact? Or perhaps even confirm that that's been done?
From http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/geoweb_faq.html , it looks like Google just get the Wikipedia database dumps, do some text processing stuff with it, and use that.
That's my understanding.
(Although I probably could have confirmed this with the Google Earth developer yesterday at their developer day, but it was stand around for ages after his talk when he was swamped by questions to ask this, _or_ go and drink free beer... what are you gonna do?!)
Tsk! Some people have no web 2.0 priorities!
What do we have to do here? If the template changes, isn't it up to Google to update their internal tool for parsing the database dump to extract this info?
I would have thought so, too, but there has been some - very vocal - opposition to changing anything until *after* Google have updated their parser; hence my request here.