Last modified: 2012-12-12 13:53:40 UTC
The RSS feed of Recent Changes should be enhanced with GeoRSS coordinates when available from IP address editing, or page or file upload coordinates (e.g. using the {{coords|...}} template or uploaded file geocoding.) This would allow a more visually interesting depiction of recent changes when they are being used to show representative edits. I it would probably be best to include only the first three paragraphs of the diff in such a feed, and if there is some way to get a thumbnail of the page's first File/Image when available, that would be even better. I asked about this on IRC, and something like it was already done on the old stable toolserver, but it wasn't moved to the new toolserver as far as I can tell. References: English Wikipedia's Recent Changes RSS feed: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss GeoRSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS PHP example IP geolocation API: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php Commons geocoding: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding Google maps GeoRSS API: http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html Example using Twitter: http://twitervision.com WikiProject Geographical coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates
the example should be http://twittervision.com, not twitervision sorry
There already is WikipediaVision http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html
László Kozma has kindly offered to open source WikipediaVision by May 1, 2010 as part of a larger Google Summer of Code effort.
Reminder to suggest abbreviated diffs (already suggested) and perhaps the first 1000 characters of the article's introduction?
[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html . Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest". For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]
