Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Geographical coordinates (section)

=== Coordinates from other language versions (iwcoor) ===
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! Import of coordinates from other wikis
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* conversions are done based on external links to mapsources in other languages
* the [[tools:~dispenser/view/File viewer#log:iwcoord-enwiki-Coord missing.log|iwlog]] determines primary coordinates for articles in other languages
* in general, primary coordinates are imported to this wiki
* coordinates are used to replace {{tl|coord missing}} with {{tl|coord}} with the parameter display=title
* dms or decimal format is kept, format=dms can be added to decimal coordinates
* negative coordinates followed by N or E are converted to positive coordinates followed by S or W
* coordinates are not imported if:
** degrees are out of range (90°/180°)
** minutes or seconds >= 60
** region doesn't start with [a-zA-Z] [a-zA-Z]
** type is not in [[Wikipedia:GEO#type:T|list]]. A few are corrected (e.g. village=>city, lake=>waterbody, dam=>landmark, island=>isle). coordinates with type:state are not converted. Numbers other than population are stripped.
** globe is present
* scale is kept, zoom from nl: converted to scale. scale can be dropped if it's equivalent to the one determined by type
* source is set to "xxwiki" (xx being the wiki the coordinates are imported from). An additional string can be added to differentiate one bot from others (e.g. "-x"). If source: is used in the other language, the previous element is added after a slash, e.g. source:gnis imported from xx: wiki => source:xxwiki-gnis
* region is set to uppercase, type and scale to lowercase
* other elements are discarded
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| Last updated: 16:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC) 
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