Wikivoyage talk:Feature requests

General feature suggestions
Moved from travellers' pub by (WT-en) Evan

I am currently taking a break from doing php-programming on websites in South America. naturally i was struck by the brilliant idea of logging travels, images, tips & maps etc on a website for other travelers to use & collaborate on. great to see a project already underway. I have a few comments/questions, if there is another section better for commetnts, plz let me know.


 * Glad you like the idea. This is probably the best place for general comments about the site.

how much does MediaWiki support mark-up? I think there would be a huge benefit from using specialised markup to edit wiki pages. right now i an am looking at editing bolivias page & i see alot of nasty attributes and html-specific trash. IMHO it would be cool to use just simple, wikivoyage-specific markup (i.e., , , ) in the edit pages, this markup can be converted on-the-fly to whatever nasty html you(we) need to display, but the source information is highly organized & very clean markup.


 * I agree that this would probably be useful. The quickbar hoohaw in country pages can be a little intimidating, and I for one want to get rid of it ASAP (see avoid HTML for why). There's an enhancement proposal for MediaWiki to add field-value pairs, which I think will do what you're saying. It probably won't happen till the next version of MediaWiki comes out, though.

also the possibility of a mozilla client which would work directly with the markup would be cool, wiki-travellers could have a runable-binary on a cd whiuch they could pop into their computer and use, possibly doing things like map-editing in cafes etc.


 * Oh, man. Yeah, that'd be seriously cool. We have an Offline Reader Expedition to start working on this stuff, but it's not too far off the ground yet. I think the offline editing stuff isn't really a big part of MediaWiki yet, because offline access is less important for Wikipedia than it would be for Wikivoyage.

anyway just a few thoughts, kudos on the effort & i think u will see me around.

OK just had a bit more of a look around & i see Wiki markup is the standard, not html, but some of the comments still stand & there probably would be a benefit from using more specific markup than normal wiki has. --(WT-en) Blackisha


 * All agreed. Thanks for your indepth comments. If you're really interested, and familiar with PHP, we could probably use some help adding Wikivoyage-specific features to MediaWiki. Most of the work on MediaWiki is coordinated through the wikitech-l mailing list, which would be a good place to start getting involved. --(WT-en) Evan 10:47, 8 Dec 2003 (PST)

OK, can i start an expedition or suchlike to brainstorm some of the ideas i have so that youse can see more clearly what my ideas are & whether i am smoking crack or not? Probably WikiTravelMarkup Expedition id say, or just WikiTravelMarkup.

Automated pretty weather reports
Moved from travellers' pub by (WT-en) Ryan

Now this would be nice to add: WeatherChecker. It's GPL and used on WikiNews... only catch is, it requires Microsoft .NET to run (eww). (WT-en) Jpatokal 05:13, 25 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Wow -- WeatherBot is offering to do the dirty work offsite, so they just upload the updated images! I'll set up a test page or two and see if we can get this working.  (WT-en) Jpatokal 13:38, 25 Mar 2005 (EST)