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Posted by sohkamyung 12 hours ago

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you(edjefferson.com)
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ktimespi 3 hours ago|
Coolest shit I've seen here in a while ngl
timonoko 4 hours ago||
https://wiki-map.com/ considered much better.

Has local language too.

flipbrad 4 hours ago|
Osmand for android also embeds results on the map, as an optional layer.
shevy-java 2 hours 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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tomthe 3 hours ago||
Time to promote my project: https://tomthe.github.io/wiki-importance-map

It shows all Wikipedia articles on a zoomable map. The size of the labels depends on its pagerank score and the pageview statistics.

phgn 3 hours ago||
Wow this is surprisingly useful to explore local data, thanks for building!!

I wonder: why are you calculating PageRank, are the wiki article views not enough?

If I play around with the importance slider, PageRank seems to have much less difference between articles, highlighting just a few articles per city in large text.

tomthe 1 hour ago||
Yes, the pageview statistics might be enough, but I started from the pagerank dataset https://github.com/athalhammer/danker

And because of bot traffic, the pageview statistics are sometimes suspicious and noisy.

jstanley 3 hours ago||
Cool map but FYI most of the ones near me are just random buildings that don't even have Wikipedia articles.
tomthe 3 hours ago||
Oh, yes. It also includes all Wikidata entries with geocoordinates, but they have the lowest "importance" and are only shown very small. You need to zoom out a bit to see places with articles.
syshyk 3 hours ago||
Would it be possible to filter this to only show wikipedia objects?
tomthe 1 hour ago||
If you open the menu, there are already some filters, but no filter to filter out Wikidata-only entries yet. Maybe I will add it.
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