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Show HN: Visualize the locations of Wikipedia contributors on a world map
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- grepper 12y agoI put this together as a fun little side project after beginning to wonder about geographic biases present in Wikipedia articles. Here are just a few comparisons that I've tried & found at least mildly interesting... - Religious figures: Muhammad vs Jesus vs Vishnu https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-contributor-locations/#!/map/en.wikipedia.org/Jesus%26%26Muhammad%26%26Vishnu https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-contributor-locations/#!... - Major cities: San Francisco vs New York City vs Chicago https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-contributor-locations/#!/map/en.wikipedia.org/New%20York%20City%26%26Chicago%26%26San%20Francisco https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-contributor-locations/#!... - World leaders: Barack Obama vs Elizabeth II vs Pranab Mukherjee https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-contributor-locations/#!/map/en.wikipedia.org/Barack%20Obama%26%26Elizabeth%20II%26%26Pranab%20Mukherjee https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-contributor-locations/#!... Here's an album of screenshots http://imgur.com/a/wmsLX http://imgur.com/a/wmsLX, if you don't mind losing the ability to zoom in and look around :) All the code is open source and available on GitHub https://github.com/theopolisme/wikipedia-contributor-locations https://github.com/theopolisme/wikipedia-contributor-locatio.... The tool uses a Python backend to access the Wikipedia API and pull a list of revisions for the given articles, then look up their locations using MaxMind's free GeoIP database. On the frontend side of things, I used leaflet.js and a custom-modded (to allow for variable point radii to indicate multiple edits from the same location) version of leaflet.heat to draw the map.