Hi guys. I've been playing around with the API on en.wiki. and have a question. By default any secondary coordinates in the API output get labelled with the name of the article, which isn't necessarily very helpful. However WIWOSM is managing to extract the HTML anchor names for secondary coordinates on eg a list article of listed buildings in a county or the junctions on a motorway. I can't see how to do that via the API, am I missing something or is WIWOSM doing something clever that isn't available to mere mortals (short of parsing the list article directly)? TIA Le Deluge (talk) 14:58, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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Wiwosm uses screenscraping, it doesnt use this extension. Ive been looking into this a bit to see how to bring everything together, increase consistency and reliability, but its a big set of work that needs to happen in all prts of map support.
OK, no worries. Looking at the UK, the biggest one seems to be the lists of listed buildings which use a template which presumably has scope to be helpful, also the lists of place names and to a lesser extent eg junctions on motorway articles. In principle I guess you could templatify those and it would cover the vast majority of secondary coords in the UK, even if you'd need something cleverer to do absolutely every point. As an aside, congrats and thanks to everyone who's worked on these APIs, they've come a long way since I last looked at them years ago.