birthday present: Special:Nearby - Wikidata

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29 Oct 29 Oct

8:59 p.m.

This is so great potentially for local face-to-face Wikidata networking, and in so many other ways. Scott On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

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Hey folks :) Have you ever wondered what is happening on Wikidata around you? What does Wikidata know about the building next door? Or the tube station a few blocks away? Now you can find out. Head over to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby and you will know. This is another piece in the puzzle to making it easier to get an overview of the data you care about. Share if you find something cool and unexpected around you! Cheers Lydia PS: A special thanks to everyone who helped get this out including Max Semenik, Jon Robson, Florian, Erik Bernhardson and David Causse.. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Andrew Gray

30 Oct 30 Oct

1:06 p.m.

You can also do a link into WD-FIST using an arbitrary set of coordinates, which might help with a tool like this - https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=around%5b625,52.205,0.… (1 km from centre of Cambridge) You get interesting results for capital cities, though... A. On 29 October 2015 at 22:35, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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Very nice! A few quick comments: * It keeps asking me to share my location (FF40/Mac), even though I agree. Maybe a cookie issue? * This also happens when I click on an item. * Testing near Wikidata HQ ;-) I found quite a few items without image. Note that you can construct a link for specific items (as in, items in your results without image) to WD-FIST. Example (three items closest to my location): https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=items%5b1975500,629084… In this case, I could instantly add an image for two of the three items (I didn't, for demonstration's sake). Maybe worth a thought. Cheers, Magnus On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:09 PM Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hey folks :) Have you ever wondered what is happening on Wikidata around you? What does Wikidata know about the building next door? Or the tube station a few blocks away? Now you can find out. Head over to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby and you will know. This is another piece in the puzzle to making it easier to get an overview of the data you care about. Share if you find something cool and unexpected around you! Cheers Lydia PS: A special thanks to everyone who helped get this out including Max Semenik, Jon Robson, Florian, Erik Bernhardson and David Causse.. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Daniel Mietchen

31 Oct 31 Oct

7:40 a.m.

Thanks, Andrew - I liked that. Did a few of these Australian items and then changed the coordinates to locations I know better. d. On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

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And here's a little experiment if you want to do the "nearby missing images" remotely: a map of Australia, divided up into 1x1 degree squares, showing the number of items in those squares with no P18, and preloaded links to FIST: http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/australia.html Andrew (contemplating generating a world map of these...) On 30 October 2015 at 12:06, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

You can also do a link into WD-FIST using an arbitrary set of coordinates, which might help with a tool like this - https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=around%5b625,52.205,0.… (1 km from centre of Cambridge) You get interesting results for capital cities, though... A. On 29 October 2015 at 22:35, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

Very nice! A few quick comments: * It keeps asking me to share my location (FF40/Mac), even though I agree. Maybe a cookie issue? * This also happens when I click on an item. * Testing near Wikidata HQ ;-) I found quite a few items without image. Note that you can construct a link for specific items (as in, items in your results without image) to WD-FIST. Example (three items closest to my location): https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=items%5b1975500,629084… In this case, I could instantly add an image for two of the three items (I didn't, for demonstration's sake). Maybe worth a thought. Cheers, Magnus On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:09 PM Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hey folks :) Have you ever wondered what is happening on Wikidata around you? What does Wikidata know about the building next door? Or the tube station a few blocks away? Now you can find out. Head over to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby and you will know. This is another piece in the puzzle to making it easier to get an overview of the data you care about. Share if you find something cool and unexpected around you! Cheers Lydia PS: A special thanks to everyone who helped get this out including Max Semenik, Jon Robson, Florian, Erik Bernhardson and David Causse.. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Katie Filbert

29 Oct 29 Oct

11:45 p.m.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

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Hey folks :) Have you ever wondered what is happening on Wikidata around you? What does Wikidata know about the building next door? Or the tube station a few blocks away? Now you can find out. Head over to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby and you will know. This is another piece in the puzzle to making it easier to get an overview of the data you care about. Share if you find something cool and unexpected around you!

Just to add... today I hacked up a script that adds a "nearby" (globe icon) button that is displayed at the top of items that have coordinates. Click on the globe and it takes you to Special:Nearby which then shows articles near that item (instead of your location). mw.loader.using([], function() { importStylesheet('User:Aude/nearby.css'); importScript('User:Aude/nearby.js');}); For now, the script only works in the desktop view/mode. I'll have to look into how this could be added in mobile view also. Cheers, Katie

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Cheers Lydia PS: A special thanks to everyone who helped get this out including Max Semenik, Jon Robson, Florian, Erik Bernhardson and David Causse.. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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