A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident • Hacker News Board

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by sb52191 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

rwcarlsen wrote: post #8

Interesting to see Elon Musk as LA.

Probably because of the Boring Company press about building tunnels under the city.

Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

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Post by gereshes » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

cure wrote: post #5

Curious. Why are they almost all men? And, what's with all the wrestlers!?!

Until recently (and still today but to a lesser extent) women were excluded from certain professions (politics, science, engineering, ...) or were not given proper recognition for their contributions (Ex: Margaret Keane, Katherine Johnson, Rosalind Franklin, ...)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

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Post by SolaceQuantum » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:35 PM UTC

vpmpaul wrote: post #10

cure wrote: post #5

Curious. Why are they almost all men? And, what's with all the wrestlers!?!

Are you implying the results are doctored in some way?

I believe a more charitable interpretation is wondering why men are searched more often than women when it comes to the data set "people wikipedia'd correlated with location".

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Post by SilasX » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

Hm, I would also be interested in how cities look if your measure is "highest lookup rate relative to national average".

That is, sure, Dwayne Johnson is looked up a lot in some city, but who is looked up most compared to everywhere else?

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Post by JCharante » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

Interesting.. I've literally never heard of Anna Kendrick before.

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Post by hkmurakami » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:37 PM UTC

So it's not "this is the person most wikipediaed in this city" but rather, "this is the person amongst those who are affiliated with this city, who is the most wikipediaed"

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Post by acheron » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

cure wrote: post #5

Curious. Why are they almost all men? And, what's with all the wrestlers!?!

IIRC one of the most controversial/edit-warred Wikipedia pages is wresting-related. (Can't find the reference I'm thinking of right now though, so [citation needed] I guess.)

Germans love David Hasselhoff, and Wikipedians love wrestling.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

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Post by electricslpnsld » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

Using Wikipedia leads to some weird results. I checked my hometown in NC and would have expected Michael Jordan to be listed as the most famous associated person, but he doesn’t appear on the main Wikipedia entry so we instead got James Taylor.