https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49413
Web browser: Opera
Bug ID: 49413
Summary: Allow user to enter a location on Special:Nearby
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(
technical)#Passing_a_location_to_Special:Nearby.3F
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MobileFrontend (Beta)
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: dejunkrobot...@yahoo.co.uk
CC: jgon...@wikimedia.org, jrob...@wikimedia.org,
maxsem.w...@gmail.com, mgro...@wikimedia.org,
mpinc...@wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
MediaWiki 1.22wmf5, Extension:MobileFrontend 0.7.0
Per the discussion at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Passing_a_location_to_Special:Nearby.3F,
several Wikipedia users would like to be able to use [[Special:Nearby]] with an
arbitrary location, rather than where their browser thinks they are.
There are two parts to this:
a) Allow linking to "places near XXX", e.g. [[Special:Nearby/44.12,-71.13]].
b) Allow the user to enter a location directly.
Allowing locations to be specified as a longitude or latitude is useful for
tools that generate links (e.g. GeoHack), but is not particularly
user-friendly. A further enhancement would be to accept the name of an article
and use the coordinates on that article. This would allow the entry of many
town names, for example.
As a further benefit, the ability to enter arbitrary place names could mean
[[Special:Nearby]] is no longer completely dependent on JavaScript. (JavaScript
is needed to use browser geolocation, but is not necessary for direct user
entry of a location.)
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