Talk:Kloostri

Coordinate error

{{geodata-check}}

The following coordinate fixes are needed for

58°43′59″N 23°50′36″E

—Nickispeaki (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC) --Nickispeaki (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, the coordinates you've given above are identical to the ones that were already in the article. I have, however, tweaked them a bit to center them on the village. OK? Deor (talk) 04:20, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Y @Deor and Nickispeaki: I also mention that easiest way is to use Wikidata like {{WikidataCoord|QNUMBER|display=inline,title}}--Estopedist1 (talk) 15:09, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, @Deor and Estopedist1:. I'm not familiar with Wikidata... ;-( Could you explain HOW? Or, better, show me, how I can use it? BTW, 7 (!) years! I can't remember, what the Estonian village? ;-0--Nickispeaki (talk) 18:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Nickispeaki: Estopedist1's suggestion was to use the {{WikidataCoord}} template (click on the link for instructions) rather than the {{Coord}} template to add coordinates in an article. Personally, I try to dissuade anyone from relying on Wikidata, since its coordinates (and other information) are frequently inaccurate. It's better to verify coordinates independently. Deor (talk) 21:06, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Deor: Thanks! Any example, please! --Nickispeaki (talk) 21:10, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Nickispeaki: I do a lot of work with coordinates, so I've run across a number of examples. One that sticks in my mind was a case where someone had created Wikidata items for a number of Turkish villages and used (probably by unthinking copy/paste) the exact same coordinates in each of them, when the coordinates were correct for only one of them. Just yesterday I encountered a case where the Wikidata item for an astronomical observatory contained the coordinates of a different observatory in the same country. (Another problem with using {{WikidataCoord}} is that one has to check that a relevant Wikidata item exists and that it actually contains coordinates.) Deor (talk) 21:24, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Deor: No one? ;-( I'm still waiting... --Nickispeaki (talk) 22:16, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Nickispeaki: Waiting for what? I'm sorry; I don't understand what you're asking for. Deor (talk) 02:09, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

@Deor: an example of using that template {{WikidataCoord|QNUMBER|display=inline,title}}... --Nickispeaki (talk) 17:23, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

@Nickispeaki: As I said, the Template:WikidataCoord documentation shows how the template is used. If you want to see an example of use in an article, you can look near the bottom of the edit screen for Battle Abbey or look in any of the other articles listed in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikidataCoord. To get the QNUMBER parameter, click on the "Wikdata item" link in the left sidebar of the article in question; the Q-number will be in parentheses in the Wikidata item's heading. Deor (talk) 17:41, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

@Deor: Cool! How do you know which map you should use? I mean this - region:GB_type:landmark? How can I find it for my article (other country, not UK)?--Nickispeaki (talk) 18:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC) I edit my wiki, Ukrainian Wikipedia, we haven't even this template! ;-0 ;-( --Nickispeaki (talk) 18:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

@Nickispeaki: A template of the form {{WikidataCoord|QNUMBER|COORDPARAMS|display=inline,title}} would accept region:GB_type:landmark (for instance) in the COORDPARAMS field. Deor (talk) 18:17, 5 May 2020 (UTC)