Wikimedia

Wikinity: Implement coordinate converter to allow users to use more coordinate formats

Knowledge requirements

The student must know at least basics of Flask, a Python web microframework and Python itself.

Problem & proposed solution

Wikinity is a tool allowing everybody to find unphotographed objects near given geographics location. Wikinity allows users to specify the location by: a) article name on any Wikipedia b) Wikidata item number c) coordinate.

Details can be found on the Phabricator task. You are expected to provide a patch in Wikimedia Gerrit.

Materials

Task tags

  • python
  • flask
  • wikidata
  • coordinates

Students who completed this task

Shreyas Minocha

Task type

  • code Code
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2018