I 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? As there was no response, I resurrected the code from my ar- chives and created <URI:http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mapsources> (code available by "git clone http://www.tim-landscheidt.de/git/Mapsources"). It's not yet ready for production, but with the main source file below 300 LOCs, it shouldn't be that hard (mainly properly vali- dating and escaping input). Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette