Extension:Mapsources
 Release status: beta |
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| Implementation | Special page |
| Description | The Mapsources extension tries to incorporate Toolserver's geohack capabilities into MediaWiki. |
| Author(s) | Egil Kvaleberg, Magnus Manske, Tim Landscheidt (Tim.landscheidtTalk) |
| Last version | 0.2dev (2011-12-30) |
| MediaWiki | 1.19alpha |
| PHP | 5.2.13 |
| License | GPL 3 |
| Download | Project page |
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Check usage (experimental) |
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[edit] What can this extension do?
The Mapsources extension tries to incorporate Toolserver's geohack capabilities into MediaWiki. The objectives are to:
- Spread load and traffic from Toolserver's geohack over the Wikimedia server farm,
- increase availability and decrease response time,
- allow squids to cache anonymous users' queries,
- allow mapsources template to be shown in the user's skin,
- allow mapsources template to make use of parser functions and other goodies and
- enable dump reusers to use coordinates without setting up a separate Toolserver.
Intermediate term objective is to:
- Allow users to configure that they will be:
- immediately redirected/redirected after a x second delay
- to:
- Mapservice A for coordinates in region CH,
- Mapservice B for coordinates in region DE-HH,
- Mapservice C for coordinates in region DE and
- Mapservice D for all others.
[edit] Usage
Mapsources provides a special page Special:Mapsources similar to Special:Booksources. It uses parameters given (lat, lon, type, dim, pagename) to fill a template Template:Mapsources. Template:Mapsources is in structure similar to Template:GeoTemplate used by geohack with the exception that parameters are delimited by three curly brackets ("{{{scale}}}") as in other MediaWiki templates.
[edit] Download instructions
Download the repository from GitHub and copy the code to $IP/extensions/Mapsources/.
[edit] Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:
require_once ("$IP/extensions/Mapsources/Mapsources.php");
Caveat: There are some input checks still missing that could lead to security vulnerabilities. Use at your own risk.
