This is slightly related to T34410
These altitude numbers make the UW fail "But the UW considers an altitude not being a simple number to be a syntax error. So you have to change the altitude values, strip the /1 in simple cases or do the calculation in complicated cases"
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback#Geo_data_altitude_expressed_as_quotient_causes_problems
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remove commented-out for ages 'altitude' code | mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard | master | +8 -31 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T41553 UploadWizard does not let you input 'altitude' when uploading a file (geodata) | |||
| Open | None | T34410 MediaWiki api doesn't serve EXIF GPSAltitude (and other tags) as decimals |
Interesting observation btw...
wikiText += '{{Location dec|'+ lat + '|' + lon + '|' + alt + '}}\n';
However location dec and geohack don't even support an altitude parameter, and definitely not in that format....
Submitted a patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/21404 to simply not add Altitude to the UW for now. 2 big issues that make it sort of useless seems enough of an argument for that.
It was pointed out here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2012-June/006537.html
That we can express the altitude information as an information attribute in the last parameter of the location template, and that this was preferred to throwing it away. However, if we keep it, we do need to ensure that it doesn't ever trip the user.
[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html .
Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest".
For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will
not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]
Change 228249 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
Remove commented-out for ages 'altitude' code