Author: jsalsman

Description:
The RSS feed of Recent Changes should be enhanced with GeoRSS coordinates when available from IP address editing, or page or file upload coordinates (e.g. using the {{coords|...}} template or uploaded file geocoding.) This would allow a more visually interesting depiction of recent changes when they are being used to show representative edits.

I it would probably be best to include only the first three paragraphs of the diff in such a feed, and if there is some way to get a thumbnail of the page's first File/Image when available, that would be even better.

I asked about this on IRC, and something like it was already done on the old stable toolserver, but it wasn't moved to the new toolserver as far as I can tell.

References:

English Wikipedia's Recent Changes RSS feed: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss

GeoRSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS

PHP example IP geolocation API: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php

Commons geocoding: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding

Google maps GeoRSS API: http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html

Example using Twitter: http://twitervision.com

WikiProject Geographical coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement