Last modified: 2013-06-14 00:03:18 UTC
GeoData coordinates that can be parsed by Special:Nearby have been implemented at en.wikivoyage.org, although our articles are generally more than 10km apart which limits this functionality. See http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#Special:Nearby_on_Wikivoyage.3F http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Geo&oldid=2267575 http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord=40.7193|-74.0019 Can we re-enable this feature that was removed in bug 47636? I would like to point out that the community was not even aware of this interesting feature until two weeks after the initial bug was filed and a couple of days after that bug was closed, so earlier collaboration would have been welcomed. Please also advise if similar changes have to be made across all Wikivoyages. Thanks.
Moving to "Wikimedia" product as this request is about settings / configuration of the website, not about the codebase of the MobileFrontend extension itself. However, input of MF developers highly welcome here.
GeoData is enabled, and apparently broken for this use case, hence disabled: (In reply to comment #6) > Max disabled Nearby on wikivoyage for now: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62744/ > > We should followup to figure out what needs to be done to get it reenabled, > assuming folks want that.
(In reply to comment #2) > GeoData is enabled, and apparently broken for this use case, hence disabled: > > (In reply to comment #6) > > Max disabled Nearby on wikivoyage for now: > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62744/ > > > > We should followup to figure out what needs to be done to get it reenabled, > > assuming folks want that. Sorry, but why is it broken? And what can we do to fix it? I was under the impression that we needed to activate the #coordinates parser, which we have done (see http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord=40.7193|-74.0019). If not, then what is the next step. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #3) > Sorry, but why is it broken? And what can we do to fix it? > > I was under the impression that we needed to activate the #coordinates > parser, > which we have done (see > http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/api. > php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord=40.7193|-74.0019). > If not, then what is the next step. Thanks. The current iteration of GeoData/Nearby was designed with Wikipedia in mind so only 1 coordinate per page is returned. However, the whole point of searching on WV is that every page has a lot of points of interest - and ideally, clicking on a POI should lead the user to that particular point's description, not just the page where it is. We're tracking the work to be done at <https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/mobile/cards/784> however we don't have a timeline for it.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/67877/ merged to master.
