Local Wikipedia shows you only the encyclopedia entries within a half-hour walk
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
A side project called Local Wikipedia filters the real Wikipedia down to geocoded pages near you, pulling in the closest 25 entries if your area is sparse and capping results at 500 if it's dense. Your location never leaves the browser, so shared links don't reveal it. The site is unaffiliated with Wikipedia itself.
Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.
- 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...
- darkest_ruby
Distances measured in yards for European destinations is an insult
- 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 themselves than those who don't (homophily)
- keithnz
super interesting, https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/?w=Auckland_Film_Studios is so near me its not funny, and weirdly never seen a movie star in these parts even though some big budget films have been made there.
- 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!
- slymax
Wikipedia has a nearby feature that works in other languages as well
- paxy
The concept is cool but in practice Wikipedia with just a bunch of buildings is not that interesting. Surely there are more than ~300 noteworthy articles for a dense NYC zip code.
- pastel8739
Awesome, I found that possibly the first bookstore cafe was in Palo Alto on Cal Ave! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printers_Inc._Bookstore
It'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.