Wikipedia API for geolocations

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Mark picture Mark · Nov 16, 2010 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

Is it possible, using the existing Wikipedia API's to get a list of articles around a Geo-location? Sort of like how Google maps does it?

I would like to say that I am "here" and find out what is around me on Wikipedia.

I can see on articles like this you can see the "Coordinates" on the right hand side, so I would like to do a query on these coordinates...

any thoughts?

Answer

ZJR picture ZJR · Dec 23, 2014

UPDATED ANSWER:
Wikilocation has been retired and now there is an OFFICIAL WIKIPEDIA API

? action=query
& list=geosearch
& gsradius=<radius-in-meters>
& gscoord=<lat>|<lon>

HTML example | JSON Example

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