User talk:Dschwen/WikiMiniAtlas
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Hi Dschwen, This is a very neat Javascript project. I've installed it and am not quire sure what to expect: what determines whether an article appears on the map? Is the program accessing some index of all articles with coordinates? Banff National Park doesn't have coordinates using the top-of-page template (whatever that's called) but has them in an infobox—it does not appear on the map. Just curious, Outriggr 03:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest :-)! I download and parse the Wikipedia KML files for GoogleEarth. A german user (de:Benutzer:Stefan Kühn) updates them on a regular basis. The problem is the plethora of coordinate templates in en.WP (de.WP just has 3 templates more or less). Maybe Banff used an unsupported template. Then again I cannot display all links on the map. A sophisticated (not) weighting system, based on article length determines at which zoomlevel articles start showing up as links on the map. Since I limit the density to 4 articles per 128x128px square some might not make it on the map at all even at the higest zoomlevel. I'll look into the Banff article and keep you posted here.--Dschwen 04:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm not concerned about the Banff article in particular, but used it as an example. Something that strikes me about your weighting system is that it works against what I was hoping to see using this tool--that is, very specific (surprisingly specific) places that have articles in WP. Since they are likely to be stubby, I suppose they are less likely to show up. Maybe you could have an option that inverts the weightings! (Charlie's Diner instead of New York City!) I guess your weighting system is vital for highly populated areas, but me, I was looking at my home province of Alberta, a little less developed in WP. Outriggr 05:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiMiniAtlas at polish Wikipedia
What should I do that WikiMiniAtlas would fully work? I installed it according to installation instructions. It shows maps but with Not found The requested URL/tileserv_pl/x(...)x was not found on this server... and without markers with WikiLinks to other geocoded articles. When I copied .js and changed my monobook.js file atlas didn't work at all. 62.21.117.78 23:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Right now it cannot fully work, because there is no geodata dump for the polish wikipedia (at least not that i know of). As of now only english and german dumps exist. Are you involved with (and is there such a thing as) the polish Geographical-Coordinates Porject on pl.WP? If so it would be nice if some kind of cooperation between the german project and the polish project could be established to communicate about the geocoding and the templates used. That way we could exchange coordinates between projects for the benefit of both. Anyway, to avoid any confusion, could you for now remove your copy before it spreads, please. Otherwise future change I make to the main version may not be visible for users including your copy. --Dschwen 08:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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- What is geodata dump? There is no polish Geographical-Coordinates Project, but it could be. There is only polish Orten coordinates. OK. I'm going to remove my copy, but don't wory - it doesn't work at all and I use in my monobook link to yours .js. 62.21.117.78 16:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC). Here is much more coordinates 62.21.117.78 02:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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- In several wikipedias there is a standardized set of templates to insert coordinates into articles. A german wikipedia user processes the de and en database dumps and extracts all coordinate information. These dumps (each containing a set of about 50000 places) is used by the miniatlas. I wrote a server program to create and serve the labels via xmlhttp requests. So support for each new language has to be implemented serverside. I don't have much time currently, but it is certainly worth considering to expand the atlas to further languages. Do you have a list of coordinate templates used in the polish wikipedia? --Dschwen 16:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Main template, internal, minutes, degrees. It would be great, if polish WP were supported, but I can‘t program. 62.21.117.78 18:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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