Talk:Beta Features/Nearby Pages/Archive 1

What do you like about Nearby Pages?

 * It is a useful tool to find what pages are nearby that you may want to put on your watchlist. Dleit Ḵaa (talk) 02:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

What would you change about Nearby Pages?
Is this feature useful? Should we work more on it and use it as the basis to build it into a replacement for tools like Geohack? What's missing?

Close button misleading in current form

 * The "close" button doesn't work. It just brings me back one step if I've opened a file. It only actually closes the interface if I'm at the main screen. --MarkTraceur (talk) 19:27, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeh the design could be improved here but basically you are creating new windows and closing the top window. Maybe I could make them look stacked to make this clearer. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Design improvements

 * The layout seems a little cluttered, which is mostly fine, but some extra padding wouldn't hurt. --MarkTraceur (talk) 19:27, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Make it work in the file namespace

 * When I am on Stockholm I see the button with a long list of files nearby. Great! However, it does not seem to work in the File: namespace, but I think that would also be very useful too. I.e. the top file in the Stockholm list, File:Kungliga Myntet staty 2012.JPG, should also have a button (clearly it has a discoverable coordinate). --Jan Ainali (WMSE) (talk) 08:55, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes this is a known bug - it's actually caused by the lack of a space between geo coordinates generated in file templates. Luckily a fix is on the way: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96882 Jdlrobson (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Escape needed

 * It needs an escape from geographically close together pages. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 00:57, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Show catchment area

 * It would be nice to know the radius of the catchment area, i.e. "The following pages are with x meters of the geographical location of y article." It would also be fun to be able to change the radius to increase or decrease the number of pages brought up. Dleit Ḵaa (talk) 02:09, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Not just fun. This is a must, as distances have different meanings in cities vs rural areas. Klipe (talk) 09:58, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Confusion of what the feature is

 * In fact I could not see any reaction. I've activated the feature, but where is this feature? How do I access to it. I see nothing. --Parzi (talk) 03:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * +1. How do I use this if activated? It isn't the small globe icon right of the coordinates that shows a map, is it? Because this is also there when the feature is disabled. --2003:63:2F00:D800:98DD:D5CA:240B:868A 14:02, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I've added a screenshot to the feature page hopefully this will help. There is also problems with it not showing in places it should but I'm working on this now Jdlrobson (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * If you mean "Show location on interactive map", you first should communicate this on this page, and second translate this button title in other languages than English. Regards Parzi (talk) 03:36, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I think this is a different feature? Sorry for any confusion (see above point) Jdlrobson (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC).

Maps

 * It would need to support the case of pages with multiple geographic references, such as lists of monuments in a given area or about a given topic. Klipe (talk) 09:58, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually I'm a bit surprised to see that such a feature is not implemented as a map. I prefer the maps that we can already access from the top right corner (i.e. same location as the Nearby Pages user interface) of geocoded articles on the English and French Wikipedia's, through similar although slightly different features.  Alongside with the geographic coordinates, links (globe with a down arrow in en:WP, word "carte" on fr:WP) open pop-ups where the current and nearby Wikipedia pages are located on a map.  See for example the page fr:Herbeumont and en:Herbeumont. These features support zooming in and out and mention pages containing multiple coordinates (such as fr:Liste du patrimoine immobilier classé de Herbeumont). The feature on en:WP allows for a short summary of linked pages to appear as overlay and is available also for any coordinates inside a page.  The feature on fr:WP is available only for pages geocoded with one set of coordinates, but it provides an option to show thumbnail images on the map.  Finally, both provide options to show the nearby pages from Wikipedia's in other languages. These features are not perfect (in particular, none of them is available in "mobile view") but at least they could inspire the designers of the Nearby Pages feature. Klipe (talk) 09:58, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Definitely lots of inspiration there and yes a map would be great but first we need to resolve this bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33980. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Icon choice

 * Could the icon on pages be made smaller so that it's the same size as the page title? Callanecc (talk) 13:01, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

What bugs or issues have you found using Nearby Pages?

 * I like the feature. However, I don't think the icon gives enough of an idea as to what it does. I appreciate that, since it is going across projects, text is probably no good. But I feel fairly certain that a better image could be devised. The other thing is that it seems to be only taking co-ordinates from the co-ordinates template. Some articles have the co-ordinates in an infobox instead. FormerIP (talk) 00:52, 22 November 2013 (UTC)


 * The button overlaps the top icons, especially in featured articles(with the FA top icon). I think the location of the button should be fixed. Or isn't it a problem? Hard to see top icons(protected, FA, GA, etc.) -Priviet (talk) 14:42, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

The placement of the button definitely needs work. There is so many things up there that it makes it hard to know where to put it. Should it maybe be a tab next to Page and discussion? Ideas welcomed. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Button regressions

 * It changes the appearence of the "Save" button in the w:pt:Special:Preferences, w:pt:Special:MyContributions and others. Helder 11:31, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I can confirm this. It changes all button layouts to this 3D "Win95 style" that was popular in the mid-to-end-90ies. --2003:63:2F00:D800:98DD:D5CA:240B:868A 14:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree. Multiple issues: Skalman (talk) 06:44, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * (Firefox, Chrome) Button doesn't react on hover (previously it became brighter (Fx) or had its border darken (Chr))
 * (Firefox) Less clear that a button is focused (previously there was an orange focus ring, now only a dotted, inner "outline")
 * (Firefox, Chrome) Unclear outline: barely visible top and right border (previously I could see the whole button, now only its "shadow")
 * Button issues are all fixed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97069 reviews welcomed Jdlrobson (talk) 19:06, 22 November 2013 (UTC)