I don't begrudge them the odd party, anniversary, meetup.

And some of their subprojects are a great idea and could go much further -- it'd be fantastic to have a Wikipedia atlas, for example. The WikiMiniAtlas on geolocated articles is nice but it could be so much better.

But as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CANCER it's a huge concern that they're blowing money pretty much at the rate they get it, when they should be saving it for the future, and be pickier and choosier about what they're funding at any given time.

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altilunium 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I made “Wikidata Atlas” several weeks ago. [1] [2]

[1] : https://wd-nearbyitem.toolforge.org/

[2] : https://rtnf.substack.com/p/wd-nearbyitem

	▲	amiga386 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is a nice start, a rendering of GIS wikidata. Perhaps ask Wikimedia Foundation for funding :) What I'd like to see is a more intimate marrying of OSM data and Wikipedia data. For example, if I go to zoom level 12 centred on London, UK on your page, there are about 80 text labels on the OSM layer itself. At minimum this is going to need OSM vector tiles. I'd expect to be able to click any of the OSM labels for the corresponding Wikipedia article, as well as adding in POIs for articles that don't have corresponding OSM links. And then you need OSM rendering style rules about which POIs you show at each zoom level, based on whether labels will run into each other or not. The problem right now is that the WikiMiniAtlas treats all things, whether large areas or individual POIs, as POIs.

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cm2012 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you for this link, I was looking for something with that data in a clean format for some time!