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Posted by sohkamyung 9 hours ago

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you(edjefferson.com)
227 points | 49 commentspage 2
kubb 2 hours ago|
Is it possible to change the language of Wikipedia? For many places, the local language Wikipedia has more articles.
snickerer 1 hour ago|
Yes!! And with today's translation programs, the user does not even need to understand the local language. Better — for me — would even be a mix of languages. Give me the most and longest articles of all languages for the places around.
collabs 50 minutes ago||
The nearest place to me was

> 0.8 miles

Ok great I thought that I can walk...

however, it is actually 1.9 miles when walking according to Google Maps and the path lacks sidewalks.

zkmon 56 minutes ago||
I consider this to be far more progress for humanity than landing on moon or sending a spaceship to outside of solar system. That's because this move is in the right direction, while others are not. As a human, you need to first master your habitat around you, before getting excited or concerned about things that happen in another country thousands of miles away.
vasco 52 minutes ago|
You wouldn't even have spices thinking like that
no1guangming 42 minutes ago||
Checked Hong Kong, not much on the page
jamiescript 48 minutes ago||
Why is this not called Walkipedia?
dllu 2 hours ago||
Cool idea! I had lots of fun looking at stuff nearby.

Right now it seems that it simply removes links for stuff without a geotag that's nearby. But many articles are in fact nearby and are simply missing geotags, or perhaps encompass a slightly larger area where only a part of it is close by. Also, all the pictures don't have working links so I can't click on a picture to make it bigger.

slyall 1 hour ago||
I found out that a closed church I walk past regularly was called "St Chad's"
Elucalidavah 1 hour ago||
Related: OsmAnd has support for wikipedia-sourced points for the local offline maps. Not sure about the details though. Only related thing I found for an explanation is "Geospatial Wikidata Dataset", which is suspiciously fresh.
geroge_kyaw 52 minutes ago|
Why not Grokipedia?

https://grokipedia.com

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