Bug 42786 asks for an addition to the mobile interface to make it easy to submit coordinates for an article.
To do this well, we need to be able to distinguish between "article doesn't have coordinates yet" and "coordinates are not relevant" -- eg [[electricity]] has no location, electricity is everywhere. :) We don't want to keep prompting people to add a location on that page.
A marker like {{#coordinates:none}} perhaps?
Version: master
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T44786 [Contributions] Allow people to submit coordinates for articles that don't have them | ||
| Declined | None | T44834 GeoData extension needs way to specify "no coordinates relevant" |
Maybe it is easier to tag pages, which need coordinates instead of tag pages, which does not need coordinates.
Maybe a empty #coordinates results in a coordinate request or a special word is there for a coordinate request (see [[Category:Articles needing coordinates]])
We have Wikidata now, it can be used for querying entity type and figuring out whether this entity can have coordinates. This would be much more scalable than making poor users put magic words on pages.