Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:55:27 UTC
(1) Currently [[d:Special:Nearby]] doesn't exist. (2) New ways for Wikidata to link to this special page could be: - [[d:Special:Nearby/Q100]] - [[d:Special:Nearby/en:Boston]]
(In reply to comment #0) > (1) Currently [[d:Special:Nearby]] doesn't exist. That's because MobileFrontend isn't installed. IIRC this feature relies on the GeoData storage of coordinates, which I don't think Wikibase integrates with. CC'ing a few Wikidata developers to see how we can achieve that. > > (2) New ways for Wikidata to link to this special page could be: > > - [[d:Special:Nearby/Q100]] > - [[d:Special:Nearby/en:Boston]] enwiki probably instead of en.
Hello, could you explain why you would like to use the Nearby feature on WikiData? In theory, we might want to move Nearby out of MobileFrontend at some point and put it in core or it's own extension.
(In reply to comment #2) > Hello, could you explain why you would like to use the Nearby feature on > WikiData? Ideally, one day all coordinates will be stored in Wikidata. It would open up a whole new range of possibilities, you could do stuff like "articles near me that aren't in my (or any other) language" or "items near me that don't have image property set (or any other property!)". > In theory, we might want to move Nearby out of MobileFrontend at > some > point and put it in core or it's own extension. This sounds like a great idea.
I'm going to mark this invalid. Although moving Nearby out of MobileFrontend at some point would be a great idea, so would moving the entirety of the MobileFrontend extension and stopping it from existing... :-). Until that happens it will stay in MobileFrontend (it is too integrated in the mobile site experience that this would actually not be a good thing in my opinion at this stage as I fear it would open it up to breakage - too many dependencies are exclusive to MobileFrontend). In the meantime it sounds like you will need to install MobileFrontend for WikiData. I'm aware there is a Google Summer of Code project to make a Wikidata mobile skin (I'm mentoring him) so this should come for free soon :-).
