Comment by INTPenis
4 hours ago
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.
I made a map of wikipedia pages and events once [1] and a key decision was: how do you chose which pages to show first, and which to show only when the user zooms in?
I went with: let's give priority to pages with the most words. If people spent time on a page, it must be a great topic right? Unfortunately, this also surfaces all the wars, crimes, and accidents that generated the most coverage.
[1] https://landnotes.org/?location=u0q9wgry-5&paneTab=about