Thursday, May 30, 2013

Wikipedia's 'Nearby' Feature Pulls Up Articles Related to Your Location

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Wikipedia has launched a new feature called "Nearby" that recommends articles based on a user's location


The Nearby page page aims to help readers learn more about their current surroundings. For example, visitors to Vatican City will see articles on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's fresco depicting The Last Judgment.



"Thanks to the terrific work of our editor community, Wikipedia has accumulated a massive amount of location data associated with its millions of articles; until now we have not fully taken advantage of this information," the free online encyclopedia said in a blog post Wednesday. Read more...


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