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Bug 55956 - MobileFrontend geodata features (like Special:Nearby) have no documentation
MobileFrontend geodata features (like Special:Nearby) have no documentation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MobileFrontend
Classification: Unclassified
stable (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: documentation
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Reported: 2013-10-21 06:03 UTC by Ryan Kaldari
Modified: 2014-02-12 23:53 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Ryan Kaldari 2013-10-21 06:03:41 UTC
I tried using Special:Nearby in my local instance and it didn't work. I wasn't able to find any documentation on how to set it up. I figured out that you had to set the $wgMFNearby global to true in order for the special page to load. (I added this to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Configuration_settings). Of course it still doesn't do anything besides load an empty page though. How do you make a page's geodata discoverable to Special:Nearby? Do I need to install Extension:GeoData? However it works, we should document it so other people can set it up easily.
Comment 1 Bingle 2013-10-21 06:04:19 UTC
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1320
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2013-10-21 11:33:07 UTC
As I recall from my test setup, something like this:

* install [[mw:Extension:GeoData]]
* make sure you run update.php!
* set $wgMFNearby = true
* get some data: add something like "{{#coordinates:37.786971|-122.399677|primary}}" to one or more pages -- see the documentation for [[mw:Extension:GeoData]] for syntax details


If you import all the right templates, importing English Wikipedia articles containing coordinates *should* record those as well.

Hmm, this reminds me -- ideally, Special:Nearby should probably move out of MobileFrontend and live in GeoData directly.
Comment 3 Max Semenik 2013-10-21 15:00:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)

Yup!

> Hmm, this reminds me -- ideally, Special:Nearby should probably move out of
> MobileFrontend and live in GeoData directly.

Currently, it relies too much on MF's JS infrastructure to make this trivial.

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