Related question if anyone here knows --
I take a lot of photos for Colorado articles (and areas I visit). I find
most of them using Special:Nearby
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby>.
This will give you something like everything within 10 kilometers or the 50
nearest articles.
I'd really like to more easily access data for this purpose. Some use cases
being:
(1) If I'm going on a road trip, are there places within some number of
kilometers near the road that I could stop by a photograph?
(2) Given any area that I'm at, what are the nearest unphotographed
articles (e.g. further than 10km away).
(3) If there's more than 50 places, can I see all of them within a range?
It doesn't look like this is possible using the API, without doing some
custom scripting that makes multiple API location queries? e.g. as it's
shown here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Nearby_places_viewer
Is that true?
It seems like to get all articles I'd need to export coordinates for
articles separately and make my own search. Which I'd rather now do.
- Craig
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:48 AM Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Wiki-Coloradans,
Wanted to share this project from the North Carolina usergroup, if you
might want to do something along similar lines:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/wikipixNC…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:WikiPixNC
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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