Le 17/01/14 09:58, Petr Bena a écrit :
There are many articles on wikipedia that contain different units. Some use cm, that are common in europe, other use inches that are more widely used in US, same with other unit types.
I think it would be cool if an extension was created which would allow everyone to specify what units they prefer, and the values in articles would be converted automatically based on preference.
For example you would say the object has width of {{unit|cm=20}} and people who prefer cm would see 20 cm in article text, but people who prefer inches would see 7.87 inch. This could be even based on geolocation for IP users
Hello,
I like the idea. One thing to take in account is that the unit conversion should be done on the client side to avoid fragmentation of the parser cache.
A possibility would be for the template to output BOTH metrics and imperial units, then use JS/CSS to hide the irrelevant one. Hence {{unit|cm=20}} would generate something like:
<span class="mw-unitsystem-imperial">7,874 inches</span> <span class="mw-unitsystem-metric">20 cm</span>
Then using user preference to hide one of the class.