kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agoTIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you areen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1451arrow-down15
arrow-up1446arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you areen.wikipedia.orgkopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squarekopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 months agoI have just been informed you can also see pages nearby other pages with a special URL query (apparently no interface exists for this yet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/page/Utrecht
minus-squarekopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 months ago…and I thought of a web game you can make with this, if anyone’s bored and looking for something to do: https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9on0iba4evg40hic pick a random page find all pages nearby make the player guess the random page from the nearby pages if they haven’t guessed the exact page, compare the coordinates and score based on distance to the correct page
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoCool! Its like Geoguessr meets Wikispeedia!
I have just been informed you can also see pages nearby other pages with a special URL query (apparently no interface exists for this yet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/page/Utrecht
…and I thought of a web game you can make with this, if anyone’s bored and looking for something to do: https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9on0iba4evg40hic
Cool! Its like Geoguessr meets Wikispeedia!