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