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%5b625,52.205,0.119,1%5d&depth=3&language=en&project=wikipedia&no_images_only=1&prefilled=1 (1 km from centre of Cambridge) You get interesting results for capital cities, though... A. On 29 October 2015 at 22:35, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> 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%5b1975500,629084,2697811%5d&depth=3&language=en&project=wikipedia&no_images_only=1&prefilled=1 > > 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 > <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
