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Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by tuukkah » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 7:04 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #92

tuukkah wrote: post #90

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I suppose I didn't (and still don't) understand why you singled out US and GB. Here's my take of the topic: 1. Wikipedia editions are not defined by region but by language, and the relationship between regions and languages is many-to-many. English is spoken (as a dominant language) in US/UK/CA/IE/AU/IN/... among others and German is spoken in DE/AT/CH/IT/... among others. 2. English is one of the language editions.…

> why you singled out US and GB let's take him at his word, "it's thin outside the US and GB." OK, hmmm, how do we get more global coverage? oh, of course, France would be fr.wiki and Germany would be de.wiki, that would really increase global coverage. now you come in and say "but what about Canada, Australia, etc? there is no nz.wiki et al?" And then you have some ideas about how to do that, ideas which are not str…

Perhaps a relevant question: Are you describing a business need, a (supposedly) good way to implemented it, or how are you combining the two here?

> OK, hmmm, how do we get more global coverage?

Like I said, combine all the Wikipedia editions using Wikidata.

> oh, of course, France would be fr.wiki and Germany would be de.wiki

And of course, what language is e.g. Belgium (in your model)?

> And then you have some ideas about how to do that, ideas which are not strictly "wikipedia"

In this strict case, how do you remove duplicates (between the different language editions)?

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by RamblingCTO » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 9:55 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #92

tuukkah wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose I didn't (and still don't) understand why you singled out US and GB. Here's my take of the topic: 1. Wikipedia editions are not defined by region but by language, and the relationship between regions and languages is many-to-many. English is spoken (as a dominant language) in US/UK/CA/IE/AU/IN/... among others and German is spoken in DE/AT/CH/IT/... among others. 2. English is one of the language editions.…

> why you singled out US and GB let's take him at his word, "it's thin outside the US and GB." OK, hmmm, how do we get more global coverage? oh, of course, France would be fr.wiki and Germany would be de.wiki, that would really increase global coverage. now you come in and say "but what about Canada, Australia, etc? there is no nz.wiki et al?" And then you have some ideas about how to do that, ideas which are not str…

Yup, that's it, thanks! My list of English-speaking countries just wasn't exhaustive and were the first I noticed with a higher density than the rest on first glance.

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by kmarc » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:36 AM UTC

thih9 wrote: post #83

kmarc wrote: post #81

OsmAnd has this feature built-in (and offline). This is how I travel; sometimes walking around in a city, "oh, nice building/park/statue/etc, what is this?" and in no seconds I read the intro of its Wikipedia article, if interested, can open the whole article.

Looks like a paid feature. When I downloaded OsmAnd on iOS and tried to enable Wikipedia markers, I saw a prompt to purchase a monthly subscription.

Oops, my bad.

I'm using the F-Droid version, which is slightly behind, but has all (I think) features

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by viking2917 » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

superhumanuser wrote: post #25

Love it. One comment: I wish it didn't zoom in when I click a map pin. I prefer the map to stay in the same position.

Same. The view changing every time I click is very disorienting. and have to zoom back out after every click

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by lobocinza » Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:01 PM UTC

I liked the idea but not the UI.

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by linehedonist » Sun, Feb 11, 2024, 6:28 AM UTC

pax wrote: post #89

linehedonist wrote: post #47

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I agree, some kind of ranking would be helpful (length of Wikipedia article?)

Or/and number of articles that link to it, number of languages, frequency of updates?

Agreed, lots of good options

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by hales » Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 11:16 AM UTC

rypskar wrote: post #64

hales wrote: post #60

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Completely useless for me: > Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal. I'm on a desktop. Plugged into wired internet. My "signal" is fine. No way of manually specifying a location is provided.

Maybe because op did post the mobile link, try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby instead

The same problem occurs: "Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal."

EDIT: Same thing occurs in both Firefox and Chromium

Re: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

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Post by hales » Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 11:17 AM UTC

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #63

hales wrote: post #60

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Completely useless for me: > Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal. I'm on a desktop. Plugged into wired internet. My "signal" is fine. No way of manually specifying a location is provided.

oh, come on ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/[lat],[lon]

How did you work out how to do this?

EDIT: Doesn't seem to work, the pages ignores what I put there and doesn't change behaviour.