MobileFrontend geodata features (like Special:Nearby) have no documentation
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	kaldari
	Oct 21 2013, 6:03 AM

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I tried using Special:Nearby in my local instance and it didn't work. I wasn't able to find any documentation on how to set it up. I figured out that you had to set the $wgMFNearby global to true in order for the special page to load. (I added this to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Configuration_settings). Of course it still doesn't do anything besides load an empty page though. How do you make a page's geodata discoverable to Special:Nearby? Do I need to install Extension:GeoData? However it works, we should document it so other people can set it up easily.

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kaldari created this task.Oct 21 2013, 6:03 AM

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1320

As I recall from my test setup, something like this:

install [[mw:Extension:GeoData]]
make sure you run update.php!
set $wgMFNearby = true

If you import all the right templates, importing English Wikipedia articles containing coordinates *should* record those as well.

Hmm, this reminds me -- ideally, Special:Nearby should probably move out of MobileFrontend and live in GeoData directly.

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Yup!

Hmm, this reminds me -- ideally, Special:Nearby should probably move out of
MobileFrontend and live in GeoData directly.

Currently, it relies too much on MF's JS infrastructure to make this trivial.

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MobileFrontend&diff=805614&oldid=804778

Please update on the wiki!

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MarcoAurelio removed a parent task: T2001: [DO NOT USE] Documentation is out of date, incomplete (tracking) [superseded by #Documentation].Dec 6 2017, 7:32 PM

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