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Posted by sohkamyung 11 hours ago

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you(edjefferson.com)
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collabs 2 hours 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.

goodpoint 2 hours ago||
https://wiki-map.com/ is better
no1guangming 2 hours ago||
Checked Hong Kong, not much on the page
INTPenis 3 hours ago||
This is a really fun idea, but I went from excited to disgusted in the span of one click.

The first thing that pops up for my city of Malmö is the school stabbing that happened in 2022. They're so rare here, and yet Wikipedia felt I just had to see it.

I'm not going to make stupid feature requests, but it would be cool with a filter for types of Wikipedia articles to show.

MajorTakeaway 4 hours ago||
This took too long to make.
flohofwoe 2 hours ago|
Maybe because Wikipedia has it as a builtin feature ;) (tbf I wasn't aware of that either):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

ChrisGreenHeur 3 hours ago||
I guess it works but I have no idea what a yard or a mile is.
numpad0 2 hours ago||
A mile is supposed to be (1 / 60 / 360 / Earth.circumferenceOf()), so a 1.5mi radius or 3mi diameter circle is (supposed to be slightly short of) 3/60 or 0.05 degrees on a map.

A yard is just 10% short of a meter, just the same thing for most practical purposes.

(full disclosure: I did look these up)

retsibsi 3 hours ago||
Metric rules and imperial drools, I agree, but I reckon if we put our minds to it we can multiply by 0.9 and 1.6 (or 0.91 and 1.61 if you are genius). Keeps the mind sharp in this age of outsourced thinking!
ktimespi 1 hour ago||
Coolest shit I've seen here in a while ngl
dyauspitr 3 hours ago||
Very nice! It really should have a field to enter the radius of the search.
shevy-java 1 hour ago|
It's an interesting idea. Personally I prefer information to not be restricted, but for those who are, for instance, not very mobile, having Wikipedia as a focus nearby, kind of makes sense. I am not sure how useful Wikipedia is, as a lot of information may be missing locally or not be up to date, but given how utter crap Google search is these days, any move towards improvements (including local things) is good. The internet was being ruined by the big corporations ruining the web for many years - it is time to fight back.
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