Right now Special:Nearby has no introduction sentence explaining what it shows. It should have an intro sentence so users can more easily understand what they are seeing when coming to the page.
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Special page nearby lack intro sentence | mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend | master | +12 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T169162 [Epic] Improve special page template on Minerva | |||
| Resolved | None | T169379 Update and adopt new special page template for remaining special pages (Contributions, Nearby, History and Watchlist) | |||
| Open | None | T96040 Wikibase special pages (tracking) | |||
| Duplicate | None | T120520 [Story] make it easier to understand what Special:Nearby is | |||
| Resolved | • Nirzar | T125820 Special:Nearby lacks to show purpose of the feature to the user | |||
| Resolved | aude | T138478 "Loading..." text is never hidden on Special:Nearby after loading is done |
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Yeah, @Lydia_Pintscher, i see Nearby Special page does not have any introductory sentence concerning it. Looking at all the other special pages, i see all of them have an intro statement saying what the extension does.
Will look into this and submit a patch :)
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Change 269464 had a related patch set uploaded (by D3r1ck01):
Special page nearby lack intro sentence
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I would correct it to: Reveals information concerning interesting locations around your current location (IP address).
(first location -> locations and space between location and (IP )
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This is not accurate. It uses the geolocation API which may use GPS.
I'd like to get input from @Nirzar before continuing.
Personally I think a message above the list is the wrong solution and I think ideally the spinner should say "Finding pages near your current location..." to indicate what's going on.
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Special:Nearby can also use different coordinates
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/38.897669444444,-77.03655
or show things near a page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/page/Q243
I wonder if we can make the wording could accommodate these other possibilities, or have different messages for those cases?
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I always forget about those.
Yes, I can imagine a different message for each of the above being useful for these cases.
I'm not sure how you make "38.897669444444,-77.03655" user friendly though. Ideally you'd say something like "The following pages are near Washington DC" rather than "The following pages are near 38.897669444444,-77.03655".
I think updating the ajax loading gif to have a message would be a good first start though.
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Change 269464 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
Special page nearby lack intro sentence
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Hi D3r1ck01 I'm abandoning this in case someone else wants to work on it (that can obviously be you but I see you removed yourself as the assignee from the task :)) Luckily this change will be preserved in Gerrit for whoever wants to take another go at it! Thank you for trying!