LocDB Alpha 20080922 improvements

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Creating alias pages
http://www.wikivoyage.org/ldb9/Help:Creating_Locations#Creating_a_new_alias mentions "Create page" button, whereas it says "Save module". May I fix this help page?

On clicking this button and creating new alias page, a warning appears: "This page doesn't exist". Is it meant to act like this?

LukeWestwalker ⇔ 21:00, 24 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The text of the warn message should be: "An article with this name does not exist on the wiki." And yes, it is meant to act like this. It indicates that you are about to create a new location or an aliase with no corresponding article on the wiki (not the locDB!). At least, this is what I do see. Concerning the label of the button, I better change this instead of the help page. -- Hansm 17:13, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Now I see. My favourite for warn message would be:"An article with name of the alias you want to create doesn't exist on the corresponding wiki. Please remember to coordinate your editions with the respective wiki." I assume it is possible to include even a link to http://www.wikivoyage.org/ldb9/Help:Location_Database#Renaming_alias_titles ? LukeWestwalker ⇔ 16:53, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, but there are cases where it makes sense to create a location alias without having a corresponding article on the wiki. For example, when you have created a new article for some smaller city, but the intermediate hierarchical levels up to the country level are missing. You might want to build up this hierarchical structure on the locDB without creating stub articles on the wiki. This is why I only throw a warn message and not an error. -- Hansm 12:53, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I have changed the message to this: 'There is no corresponding article "Nowhereland" on the it: wiki.'. I hope this will be unambigous and easy enough to understand. -- Hansm 13:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Module Geo
Is there a plan to add the ISO-3166-Code and the UN-Locode to the GEO-information besides the coordinates? Till now I added these information to the Geo-template on de: and the linked Category on shared, when these informatione were available. -- DerFussi 08:45, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, but not exactly like this. There are vague plans for adding a module "Names" that holds this codes as well as names and alternative spellings in various languages. But its implementation will still take a while. -- Hansm 12:44, 7 October 2008 (UTC)