Also this is not anything I am going to do just myself. This is something WE should do. I have like 0 knowledge of this kind of things, I was just thinking it would be a nice thing to have. Some interface developer who is master of JS and such is needed to make this. I can help of course, but basically I am just proposing an idea :-)
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > it can't be done client side. It must be done on both sides, so that > user can save their preference into database without having to set it > everytime they get their cookies wiped (which in my case is like 10 > times a day just by switching devices and browsers) > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> On 01/17/2014 12:58 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Whatever you do, make it client-side. It would be great to expose type >> information with an attribute in HTML, so that it can be used for >> client-side unit conversions. Ideally the typed information comes >> directly from wikidata (and can be fed to nice table/pie chart/whatever >> widgets), but it should also not be too hard to mark up data that lives >> on the wiki the same way. >> >> Gabriel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
