Comment by tomthe

2 hours ago

Time to promote my project: https://tomthe.github.io/wiki-importance-map

It 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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phgn  1 hour ago

Wow this is surprisingly useful to explore local data, thanks for building!!

I wonder: why are you calculating PageRank, are the wiki article views not enough?

If I play around with the importance slider, PageRank seems to have much less difference between articles, highlighting just a few articles per city in large text.

jstanley  2 hours ago

Cool map but FYI most of the ones near me are just random buildings that don't even have Wikipedia articles.

  • tomthe  2 hours ago

    Oh, yes. It also includes all Wikidata entries with geocoordinates, but they have the lowest "importance" and are only shown very small. You need to zoom out a bit to see places with articles.