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• nomilk
  Weird psychological quirk: otherwise banal articles seem much more pertinent when they happen to be nearby (I just read about a random plane crash from decades ago but felt very invested in it, due to proximity).Wonder if this is related to the biological phenomena of humans tending to care more about humans who resemble ourselves than those who don't (homophily)
• esperent
  This is a great idea but I'd definitely make the distance configurable. Where I am right now would need several hours walking to reach anywhere Wikipedia worthy but if I expanded to say a 15km circle there's probably a couple of places of interest.Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...
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  tomthe
  Time to promote my project: https://tomthe.github.io/wiki-importance-mapIt shows all Wikipedia articles on a zoomable map. The size of the labels depends on its pagerank score and the pageview statistics.
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  ChrisRR
  Mine is all of the local schools and then a cold war nuclear bunker that I didn't know about
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  darkest_ruby
  Distances measured in yards for European destinations is an insult
• noduerme
  This is super cool! Just punched in my zip code, and hit "random article" three times, and came up with three weird stories I didn't know about the history of places within a few blocks of me in Portland, Oregon. What an awesome idea for travelers!
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  slymax
  Wikipedia has a nearby feature that works in other languages as wellhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
• phgn
  Omg I love this so much mate! Incredible how much more relevant nearby articles feel than the default to which you have no personal connection. I also think local news are much better/useful for the same reason.I'm working on something similar! Open World, an app that turns collecting nearby Wikipedia places into a game! [1]It started with you having to go to the place IRL to unlock the article/story, mostly so you find cool spots out on a walk. But slowly I discovered that most people go on walks somewhat rarely, so now it also includes a virtual Fast-Travel system using Apple Maps LookAround :)Oh, also a 3D map of the different neighbourhoods of a city to unlock one a time, plus narrative Quests to complete with the secrets you found, ...Local History is fun!![1] https://openworldapp.xyz
• johnny_lol
  I used this during my walk around around Tirana, Albania this morning where I'm traveling right now. I learned some interesting history about the neighborhood I'm staying in. Also discovered some museums and buildings nearby that I'd like to check out now.When I visit a new city I usually spend time poking around Google Maps to discover points of interest nearby, but this will be another useful resource. Thanks!
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  pastel8739
  Awesome, I found that possibly the first bookstore cafe was in Palo Alto on Cal Ave! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printers_Inc._BookstoreIt's cool, but a bit sad, to discover establishments that used to exist nearby but don't any longer. It's not easy to do that otherwise.
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  TonyStr
  Super cool idea! Would love support for other languages, as English Wikipedia is quite limited where I live.
• kristopolous
  https://localwiki.org/Been around over 20 years
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  kubb
  Is it possible to change the language of Wikipedia? For many places, the local language Wikipedia has more articles.
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  vintagedave
  Like others, I agree this is very cool.I live somewhere pretty remote, and every article it suggests is an entry for a nearby village, which is usually a sentence long. There are other interesting things nearby: could it have some kind of variance function, so it looks specifically for a variety of content?Here I am, seeing something cool and immediately asking for changes. Spirit of the internet ;) Genuinely, it is a wonderful idea, and I admire the concept and that you did it.
• flohofwoe
  Neat! A whole 25 articles for my neck of the wood :D(although I guess the German Wikipedia would have a bit more content than the English Wikipedia used here)
• mvdwoord
  Vey nicely done! One issue though, not many local articles in english here. I see no obvious way to change language?
• collabs
  The nearest place to me was> 0.8 milesOk 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.
• jamiescript
  Why is this not called Walkipedia?
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  zkmon
  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.
• dllu
  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
  I found out that a closed church I walk past regularly was called "St Chad's"
• Elucalidavah
  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.
• dzogchen
  Very cool idea. Would be even better if it had an option to use a local language.
• snickerer
  Content that is curated by interested humans, without commercial interests, is so good.
• Trigodil
  This is so cool, although I would like a feature to filter by subtopic or what the structures are used for (e.g. churches, bridges, museums).
• bcvvvy
  This is the World Wide Web I want to see. Amazing job. Thank you!
• refsab
  Very cool. Obvious in hindsight with every location having coordinates.Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed
• no1guangming
  Checked Hong Kong, not much on the page
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  thatwasunusual
  I love it. It would also be nice to be able to a) enter desired distance, and b) choose the metric system.
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• INTPenis
  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.
• izecube
  none Americans complaining about using yards is hilarious tbh
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  ChrisGreenHeur
  I guess it works but I have no idea what a yard or a mile is.
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  MajorTakeaway
  This took too long to make.
• dyauspitr
  Very nice! It really should have a field to enter the radius of the search.
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  timonoko
  https://wiki-map.com/ considered much better.Has local language too.
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• geroge_kyaw
  Why not Grokipedia?https://grokipedia.com