A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

I believe a more charitable interpretation is wondering why men are searched more often than women when it comes to the data set "people wikipedia'd correlated with location".

gereshes• 7 years ago

Until recently (and still today but to a lesser extent) women were excluded from certain professions (politics, science, engineering, ...) or were not given proper recognition for their contributions (Ex: Margaret Keane, Katherine Johnson, Rosalind Franklin, ...)

acheron2• 7 years ago

IIRC one of the most controversial/edit-warred Wikipedia pages is wresting-related. (Can't find the reference I'm thinking of right now though, so [citation needed] I guess.)

Germans love David Hasselhoff, and Wikipedians love wrestling.

tdb7893• 7 years ago

I don't follow wrestling but I've googled some wrestlers before. Their stories (both on and off stage) are often super convoluted and interesting/funny.

reallydude4• 7 years ago

See Gwen Stefani from both Anaheim and Fullerton, California. She grew up in fullerton but famously got neighbors agitated from her own rental in Anaheim. Perfecting "I'm just a girl" out of her garage took a long time.

sonnyblarney4• 7 years ago

Because wrestling is hugely popular.

rawrmaan• 7 years ago

I love this! Thanks for sharing!

xvedejas• 7 years ago

I'm surprised that George R R Martin doesn't show up for Santa Fe. Surely he's more-googled / wikipediaed than Murray Gell-Mann?

genera1• 7 years ago

Gell-Mann recently died, so it probably skews the results

sudosteph2• 7 years ago

I think it has do with how they're pulling the data. GRRM doesn't seem to appear on the wikipedia category page for people from Santa Fe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Santa_Fe,...

drivers992• 7 years ago

That has a link to here, where he's listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_from_Santa_Fe...

Edited 2015. So they must not have pulled this data.

rwcarlsen2• 7 years ago

Interesting to see Elon Musk as LA.

sb52191• 7 years ago

Probably because of the Boring Company press about building tunnels under the city.

WilliamEdward• 7 years ago

I think Spacex being located in LA is the more likely candidate.

__HYde• 7 years ago

Probably because his residence is listed as "Bel Air, Los Angeles, California" on his Wikipedia page.

SilasX• 7 years ago

Hm, I would also be interested in how cities look if your measure is "highest lookup rate relative to national average".

That is, sure, Dwayne Johnson is looked up a lot in some city, but who is looked up most compared to everywhere else?

Qwertystop• 7 years ago

It's not "people from here look up this person a lot", it's "who is the most-looked-up person that's linked to here <somehow>", where <somehow> is whatever dataset they're using to connect people to places (it's not birthplace; it might be lived-here-at-some-point? or "has the place mentioned in their Wikipedia page", or some composite). The location of the searcher is irrelevant.

JCharante• 7 years ago

Interesting.. I've literally never heard of Anna Kendrick before.

reallydude4• 7 years ago

She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff.

* She was in two of the Twilight films.

* Pitch Perfect (trilogy).

* Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies).

* A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery).

* Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great)

* Scott Pilgrim vs The World

drivers992• 7 years ago

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

3wolf• 7 years ago

B-list is pretty harsh. She has an Oscar nomination (albeit 10 years ago), and the Pitch Perfect movies made $$$.

hudibras• 7 years ago

Up in the Air is her biggest movie. Nominated for an Oscar.

danans• 7 years ago

Trolls! She's Poppy

hkmurakami• 7 years ago

So it's not "this is the person most wikipediaed in this city" but rather, "this is the person amongst those who are affiliated with this city, who is the most wikipediaed"

jessriedel2• 7 years ago

Your two version aren't in conflict, although the first is ambiguous. Are you just clarifying that that, in the first version, "in this city" is supposed to be a modifier of "person" rather than the "wikipediaed"?

0xffff23• 7 years ago

They are totally different things. The first is influenced solely by Wikipedia users in the city in question. The second is influenced by a combination of all Wikipedia users and Wikipedia's association of people with the city in question.

greiskul• 7 years ago

Is this why San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Mountain View are all Steve Jobs?

lukasb• 7 years ago

SF shouldn't be associated with SJ in my opinion. He lived and worked in the peninsula and just came up here to give talks.

electricslpnsld• 7 years ago

Using Wikipedia leads to some weird results. I checked my hometown in NC and would have expected Michael Jordan to be listed as the most famous associated person, but he doesn’t appear on the main Wikipedia entry so we instead got James Taylor.

nepeckman• 7 years ago

I saw the same thing, so I checked the Micheal Jordan Wikipedia page and it actually does not contain the text "Chapel Hill".

reaperducer• 7 years ago

That was surprisingly interesting; especially when you zoom in to the small towns.

magissima• 7 years ago

"Those connected to and victims of criminal acts" are supposed to be excluded, so Ted Bundy should probably be removed from Burlington and Salt Lake City.

edit: and while I'm looking at Lake Champlain, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are in Plattsburgh, NY, though the link doesn't work.

edit 2: Oops, I read "including" as "excluding" because that's what I expected, never mind!

jonfriese33• 7 years ago

Where do you see that?

I see this:

"Note: any person on Wikipedia is considered, including those connected to and victims of criminal acts. See more about our data and method."

bobthepanda• 7 years ago

It says in the header that they include them. At least on mobile.

busterarm• 7 years ago

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox/Linux/Privacy mode.

(Ahh, WebGL)

acheron2• 7 years ago

The connection seems to be "a link to this city's Wikipedia page appears in the named person's Wikipedia page". It does not look like the contents of the city's page have any bearing, only the person's page.

sudosteph2• 7 years ago

Yes, this is what I've seen too. Basically if the person's individual wikipedia page has a category at the bottom like "People from X city", then they will be included in the rankings for the city. So it leaves out a bunch of people who were missing that tag.

It would be cool if they could also include the "Notable People" for each city in this ranking in the future.

Fezzik• 7 years ago

That’s made obvious by Steve Jobs having an oversized presence on the map in Portland, Oregon... having only gone to college there briefly, before dropping out, and having no other connection to the city. He was more like a visitor than a resident.

sparky_z2• 7 years ago

That can't be right, or at leats not the whole story. For example, "Joaquin Pheonix" is the most searched person from Gainesville. But there's no mention of Gainesville, or even the state of Florida, on his Wikipedia page. But it does appear to be true that he was a "resident" (more or less) during his teenage years [0].

[0] https://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20040526/News/6041599...

EDIT: However, he is on Wikipedia's "List of People from Gainesville, FL" [1], so I bet those lists were the primary source of information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Gainesvill...

anamexis• 7 years ago

They explicitly say that in their "data and methods" blurb:

Person/city associations were based on the thousands of “People from X city” pages on Wikipedia. The top person from each city was determined by using median pageviews (with a minimum of 1 year of traffic). We chose to include multiple occurrences for a single person because there is both no way to determine which is more accurate and people can “be from” multiple places.

ddxxdd• 7 years ago

What tools are used to create this?

gremlinsinc• 7 years ago

I'm from Utah....I love how Ted Bundy is #1 for not just Salt lake but looks like the whole state.

Edit: I'm living in utah, from Ohio, I do not claim Utah citizenship. I'm also not Mormon (ex-mormon/agnostic). Cheers!

seanmcdirmid2• 7 years ago

Robert Redford comes up ironically enough for Provo. I thought his house was in Park City, but I guess it’s a weird city limits thing. Hope he isn’t letting any unmarried couples stay over!

rmason2• 7 years ago

Expected Lansing would be Magic Johnson but instead its Larry Page. Magic comes back often and is active in local charities, even leading efforts to raise money for college scholarships.

On the other hand Larry Page has to my knowledge never returned or given a dime to local charities. So perhaps that makes people ever more curious about him.

sparky_z2• 7 years ago

It's not "The person people from Lansing searched the most." It's "the person from Lansing that people search the most". Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson.

sonnyblarney4• 7 years ago

"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson."

This is HN bubble thinking.

Very few regular people know who 'Larry Page' is.

Almost everyone knows who 'Magic Johnson' is.

Have a look at Google search trends.

the_watcher2• 7 years ago

Except that it's really "person whose Wikipedia page references Lansing searched the most," which is how you end up with Phil Knight (an Oregon native who started a company famously headquartered in Oregon, and continues to donate huge amounts of money to an Oregon university) for La Quinta, CA, a suburb of Palm Springs in which he happens to have a house.

crazygringo• 7 years ago

Actually, no Larry Page isn't according to their stats [1].

So either it's a stats bug, or Magic Johnson is missing a link at all to Lansing in their data.

[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...

stallmanite2• 7 years ago

As a resident of East Lansing I’ve often wondered what was the deal with Larry Page never having anything to do with the town. I figured it’s a tradition if you “make it big” to throw money around in your hometown even if it’s purely for egocentric reasons. Is there bad blood somehow?

slm_HN2• 7 years ago

East Lansing is best known as the home of Michigan State University which is best known as the school that harbored Larry Nassar while he molested hundreds of american gymnasts.

Who wants to be associated with that?

RandallBrown2• 7 years ago

Well, he did go to the University of Michigan...

itronitron• 7 years ago

Vienna, VA >> Robert Hanssen

duxup2• 7 years ago

I'm not opposed to renaming Minneapolis, "Prince Town"...

mark-r• 7 years ago

He shows up twice though, once for Minneapolis and once for Chanhassen.

duxup2• 7 years ago

Prince Town and Other Prince Town

dillonmckay• 7 years ago

It seems to be the person has lived there at any point in their life?

Southwest Florida is an interesting one...

brianbreslin• 7 years ago

Funny how a porn star is the #1 for Miami Beach. I would have expected some other kind of celebrity.

baddox2• 7 years ago

It's too bad there are so many duplicates. I think it would be more interesting if it was based on birthplace, since big cities that attract lots of businesspeople/celebrities just get tagged with someone really famous who doesn't have any particular connection with the city (e.g. Elon Musk on Los Angeles, Steve Jobs on basically everywhere in the Bay Area).

The Wikidata "place of birth" field would probably be a reasonably reliable source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P19

snazz• 7 years ago

Birthplace would be interesting, but there’s plenty of famous/important people who are connected to a location other than their birthplace. Think sports stars who were on a team far away from their home.

jessaustin3• 7 years ago

Maybe, but it's still lame that Denver is represented by Peyton Manning. He was there a few years, but he isn't even the first person that the phrase "Denver quarterback" calls to mind.

baddox2• 7 years ago

Right, but I think that's a problem for large cities like Los Angeles. There's nothing particularly "Los Angeles" about Elon Musk that I know of, he's just really famous and (maybe?) happens to live there.

And with birthplace, I think it's pretty interesting to browse the map for random tiny towns no one has heard of that happen to be the birthplaces of very famous people.

cgy1• 7 years ago

The person for my hometown on that website seems to only have been born there but moved away before elementary school, so I'm not sure how that's really all that interesting.

melling• 7 years ago

Well, it’s interesting to some people because they keep searching for that person.

It’s probably because they were trying to find out when that person lived there.

sizzzzlerz3• 7 years ago

I grew up in Visalia, CA which lists Kevin Costner, the actor. He was in my high school class in my sophomore and part of my junior year when his family moved away. Although his later fame is what puts him there, we had a Nobel Prize-winning physicist actually grow up there but he never won an Oscar. Seems unfair.

auiya• 7 years ago

Hulk Hogan is credited as being born in Augusta, GA; but his family moved to Florida when he was one and a half. Also, I'm not sure why Viggo Mortensen is listed way up in north Idaho, he only lived there three years?

sizzzzlerz3• 7 years ago

Jobs shows up in Palo Alto, San Jose, Mountain View, Cupertino, and strangely, Portland, OR.

wharnal2• 7 years ago

Probably because he went to Reed College there before dropping out.

irrational• 7 years ago

I was born in Houston, Texas, but subsequently lived in 8 other cities in 6 states before I graduated from High School. I usually tell people I am from the last city I lived in when I graduated from High School (even though I haven't had any family that has lived there in decades and I haven't been back since I left for college), but really I don't have a "hometown". I'm not sure what the appropriate city would be for me if I became famous.

msla• 7 years ago

Hey, are you me? My childhood wasn't as spread out as yours, but I still lived in four separate towns before I graduated high school, and then went off to college in a fifth town. The first two towns I lived in were close enough together I can name a vague region when someone asks where I'm from, but if they press for details I have a little story to tell.

dsfyu404ed• 7 years ago

I think there's also a lot of missing entries because the person's page and/or the town's page doesn't directly link to that person.

I figured the one lone dot in northern Idaho would be Randy Weaver. Nope. Upon checking it turns out there's no direct link between Randy Weaver and Naples, Idaho. The path goes through the Ruby Ridge page.

Bjorkbat• 7 years ago

I was kinda surprised by the Los Alamos result. I was expecting Oppenheimer, instead it was some guy named Drew Goddard.

maxander• 7 years ago

This is interesting in large part as a demonstration of how bizarre/indefinite the idea of being "from" a place is. For instance, Cambridge, MA isn't headlined by a famous MIT/Harvard academic, or local political figure, or even Neil Gaiman- but instead by Bhumibol Adulyadej, the previous king of Thailand, who was born there while his father was studying at Harvard, and left at the age of 2. Meanwhile, Boston gets John Cena, who was born in a far-out suburb.

mcguire• 7 years ago

That is strange; most places I checked were dominated by figures from popular culture. Huntsville, AL, for example...

rhcom2• 7 years ago

No mention of Bruce Springsteen along the entire Jersey shore too.

vonmoltke• 7 years ago

He's attached to Bradley Beach. Oddly, his actual birthplace (Long Branch) went to Audrey Hepburn's first husband.

moate2• 7 years ago

Jersey shore resident under the age of 100 here: Good! /s

That said, it's very weird. he's listed on wikipedia as tagged with "People from..." several towns in Monmouth county. Max Weinberg takes one town, but several of the towns Bruce is listed with are taken over by relatively unknown people (Sorry Mel Ferrer and Charlie Puth)

umanwizard7• 7 years ago

Another point is that in some parts of the country the concept of “city” breaks down. There is basically no meaningful difference between being from suburban neighborhoods of Glendale, AZ and nearby suburban neighborhoods of Phoenix. (People who are too young to be dealing with water bills, garbage collection, etc. often don’t even know which one they live in).

Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect local political boundaries. I grew up in Phoenix, close to the Glendale border, and my address said “Glendale, AZ”.

mehrdadn4• 7 years ago

Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect local political boundaries. I grew up in Phoenix, close to the Glendale border, and my address said “Glendale, AZ”.

Oh what the heck! How does that even work? So the official city you live in is not the city that USPS considers you to live in? If a federal form asks you what city you live in, what do you put down (without committing perjury if there is such a risk)? Do you write something different for state and local governments? And how does one figure out what city they officially live in then? Sorry I have so many questions but this one is just twisting my brain in so many ways!

hizxy2• 7 years ago

Much different. East Valley suburbs have more to offer.

eesmith5• 7 years ago

I think it's the same error in their methodology that I described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054845 .

The map uses the list of people from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Cambridge... . However, that page contains sub- and even sub-sub-categories.

Matt Damon, who likely has more page views than Adulyadej, is listed in subcategory "Actors from Cambridge, Massachusetts‎", sub-sub-category "Male actors from Cambridge, Massachusetts‎".

jandrese• 7 years ago

John Cena was apparently born in many places, just like Dwayne Johnson.

komali22• 7 years ago

Ah fuck, what a good idea and fun project this must have been.

How do people come up with awesome ideas like this? Whenever I have time for a personal project it'll be like... "guess I'll uh.... make this LED on a raspberry pi blink... wheee"

pizza• 7 years ago

I would bet you probably come up with a really good idea about once a week, and that's being conservative.

The trick is just to store them in some always-accessible note taking app (e.g. Evernote, OneNote, Apple's Notes app) as soon as they come to you (i.e. in the middle of a totally unrelated lecture), and accumulate them over a long period of time (talking years here).

danielsf2• 7 years ago

OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...

lfx• 7 years ago

Also, you need practice, write 5 ideas a day. Doesn't matter what ideas, things might exist or not exist. After a while, you will have a pile of garbage with some really good jewels between them.

PS. It was mentioned in the book, I don't recall which one.

paxys2• 7 years ago

The real "trick" is to be able to execute on any one of those. Whenever people see some cool project they instantly go "wish I had thought of that", but 99% of the time it's overcoming all the implementation challenges which is the hard part, not coming up with the idea.

pembrook2• 7 years ago

This isn't a personal project, it's a piece of content from an actual media company (the pudding is awesome). It's a lot easier to do things like this when you it's literally your job and you have things like a budget and a team to make it happen.

trollsund• 7 years ago

The creator of the Rockstar language was apparently inspired by a tweet he saw. So inspiriaton can come from all sorts of places, but cultivating it into something tangibale is a whole other beast.

billwear• 7 years ago

Well, you did miss Jimmy Wales, who grew up in Huntsville, AL, and attended Randolph School there. How did you select your data?

sampo2• 7 years ago

Data and Methods
Data for this story were collected and processed using the Wikipedia API. The period of collection was from July, 2015–May, 2019, from English Wikipedia. It was inspired in part by this map.
Person/city associations were based on the thousands of “People from X city” pages on Wikipedia. The top person from each city was determined by using median pageviews (with a minimum of 1 year of traffic). We chose to include multiple occurrences for a single person because there is both no way to determine which is more accurate and people can “be from” multiple places.

eesmith5• 7 years ago

There is a flaw in their method.

Take for example Santa Fe, New Mexico. I expected the most Wikipediaed person would be George R. R. Martin.

Instead, it's Murray Gell-Mann.

Odd. I mean, yes, famous physicist, coiner of 'quark', etc. But, c'mon, compared to George R. R. Martin?

Then go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Santa_Fe,... . While Gell-Mann is on that page, there are also seven subcategories.

  - Actors from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (2 C, 16 P)
  - Archbishops of Santa Fe‎ (12 P)
  - Artists from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (78 P)
  - Musicians from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (16 P)
  - Politicians from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (1 C, 26 P)
  - Sportspeople from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (11 P)
  - Writers from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎

GRRM is in that last subcategory.

However, it appears to be an uncommon pattern. I tried another 15 or so cities and none of them used subcategories.

quacked2• 7 years ago

Well, Gell-Mann just died, so it could be one of those "whoever is in the news more recently gets the most pageviews" effects.

Sort of like how any mildly funny post on a growing subreddit will become top/all time simply because a lot of people looked at it that day. The next day, there will be even more people to look at it, etc.

jlarocco2• 7 years ago

Doesn't work for me in Firefox.

If web developers aren't going to bother with cross-browser compatibility it'd be nice if they at least went back to telling visitors which browsers they do support.

Estyn• 7 years ago

Works for me in Firefox 67

howard9412• 7 years ago

Me too. It likes FF 67.0 64 bit on win but dislikes FF 67.0 on 64 bit FreeBSD. The mapbox URLs aren't called on the latter. Are you also on a unix-like system?

jlarocco2• 7 years ago

Yep, Debian. Other map sites work fine for me (caltopo.com, ridewithgps.com).

danmg2• 7 years ago

worked for me on palemoon

rueynshard• 7 years ago

Works for me (FF on Ubuntu)

ascorbic• 7 years ago

Works for me with FF 68 on Mac

CWuestefeld• 7 years ago

Some surprising holes, of towns with famous people but aren't showing at all. For example

* Jayson Williams, NBA player and murderer, Alexandria NJ

* Malcolm Baldridge, US Secretary of Commerce, Woodbury CT

Ninja edit: but I'm glad to see Dennis Ritchie in Summit, NJ

sampo2• 7 years ago

I don't think Lynyrd Skynyrd from Jacksonville FL is a person.

gwbas1c• 7 years ago

How do I zoom?

danmg2• 7 years ago

mouse wheel.

rconti• 7 years ago

double tap to zoom in on my trackpad. don't know how to zoom out.

cristoperb• 7 years ago

shift+double click zooms out for me.

clairity• 7 years ago

we sure do love our entertainers!

a little interest makes sense but i've never understood the intense interest that most people have with entertainers and celebrities in general. i'm more interested in people who have, and can, impact my life, like historical figures, friends, family, scientists, and local/regional leaders (political or otherwise).

repstosw• 7 years ago

Good job, Oak Harbor, WA.

okmokmz• 7 years ago

I'm a bit disappointing that Mr Hands, the guy that died from getting penetrated by a horse, isn't the most Wikipedia'ed resident of Enumclaw

Story for anyone interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case

the_watcher2• 7 years ago

This is really cool! Something that would be nice would be an option to toggle "born in/native" vs. "any association." My hometown, La Quinta, California, has Phil Knight simply because he has a home there. No one I know associates him with La Quinta.

pgt• 7 years ago

It would be cool to see the same map for people worldwide, not just in the US.

e40• 7 years ago

Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, KY and not Paradise Valley (CA?). Wikipedia says this. Noticed this right off the bat.

Retra• 7 years ago

Birthplace isn't the criteria, residence is.

patorjk• 7 years ago

This got me to update Edward Norton's wikipedia entry. He's most likely the most famous person from Columbia, Maryland, he just wasn't categorized as from the town. Though it was interesting seeing Randy Pausch (computer scientist) listed as the town's rep.

dual_basis• 7 years ago

Really was expecting this to be an XKCD thing.

wharnal2• 7 years ago

They've got an interesting definition of city... Seattle is all one city, but DC has Georgetown, Capitol Hill, and Dupont Circle in addition to a label for the entire city.

moate2• 7 years ago

Go look at how far NYC gets broken down. Weird choices.

graywh• 7 years ago

It's based on what wikipedia pages exist. Several neighborhoods in my city are on this map, but nearby incorporated cites are not.

redleggedfrog2• 7 years ago

Why isn't Linus used for Portland?! Steve Jobs. Pfft.

defen• 7 years ago

Torvalds or Pauling?

redleggedfrog2• 7 years ago

Torvalds!

jonny_eh• 7 years ago

Why US only?

keiferski• 7 years ago

This is interesting as an example of how a person can be well-known yet their biographical details unknown.

Andy Warhol is a good example. Almost everyone in America knows his name and yet (in my experience) almost no one knows that he grew up in Pittsburgh (outside of Pittsburgh, of course.)

sampleinajar• 7 years ago

Nitpick: Allen Iverson is from Hampton, Va. Hampton Roads is a name for the region that includes 5+ cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Roads

ben010783• 7 years ago

The map seems like it doesn't specifically stick to municipalities. In New York City it gets granular enough to show that Sylvester Stallone was born in Hell's Kitchen. But for the city of Chicago, it only shows Barack Obama.

soperj• 7 years ago

Weird that they have Kurt Cobain in Montesano, not Aberdeen.

dlivingston• 7 years ago

Very cool, but...Murray Gell-Man for Santa Fe? Not George R.R. Martin? Drew Goddard for Los Alamos, not Richard Feynman?

jhbadger• 7 years ago

Besides the physics, Gell-Mann is known for the place that makes Santa Fe known to people who have no idea where it is -- the famous Santa Fe Institute.

deedubaya• 7 years ago

This was really cool to look at. This was really educational having grown up in a rural area where (I thought) no one of consequence came from. Thanks for sharing!

digikata• 7 years ago

I think it would be interesting if they filtered out any entertainment & sports celebrities to see who remained.

chrisg3• 7 years ago

This is very cool! Maybe you could add Puerto Rico as well.

leroy_masochist• 7 years ago

Danny DeVito upsets The Boss in Asbury Park! Did not see that one coming. Any other notable upsets?

serf• 7 years ago

question : why do WWE-related queries account for so much Wikipedia traffic?

pembrook2• 7 years ago

Wrestling is massively massively popular...on a scale that most people in upper middle class bubbles do not realize.

kitotik• 7 years ago

Marilyn Monroe -> Compton was unexpected…

tompetry• 7 years ago

This is a super cool project. Spot checking WA state (where I was born and still live), the results are accurate and interesting! There are some comments about wanting to resolve duplicates (though duplicates are intentional), would be neat to include a "Born in this city" setting. I believe if the person was born in X city, they would show up in the "List of people from X" page - so not many changes needed.

Bravo!

JshWright• 7 years ago

Ok, that was way more interesting than I expected...

A few bits that are interesting to me (and probably no one else).

The two towns I've lived in are both renamed Grover Cleveland (he was born in one, and spent most of his childhood in the other).

Megyn Kelly attended elementary school in the next town over from where I live currently.

bryanrasmussen• 7 years ago

I think I'd go with largest Wikipedia article, probably in most cases the same.

lorenzorhoades• 7 years ago

Elon Musk has LA? hahahaha

Thorrez• 7 years ago

I wonder why James Earl Jones isn't listed for Jackson, MI. His page contains a link to Jackson, and Jackson's page contains a link to him. His page has more views than than Paula Faris'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan

https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...

eesmith5• 7 years ago

Because the creators of the map got their list of names from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Jackson,_... .

Paula Faris is in that list. James Earl Jones is not.

Yes, there is overlap between that category page and the "Notable people" under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan .

proy24• 7 years ago

aah I always knew Sarah Palin was famous for something...didn't know until now she is from Alaska.

ptah• 7 years ago

Interesting, it should be fun to extend this to the rest of the world

kitd• 7 years ago

Louisville, KY: Tom Cruise (born in Syracuse, NY, but parents born there) replaces Muhammed Ali (by far most famous native).

Seems a bit unfair.

rotten• 7 years ago

The controls are terrible. I can't figure out how to zoom, and if I right click I get into some sort of "tilt" mode that can't be escaped from without reloading the page.

doktrin• 7 years ago

TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the most wikipedia'd person who's ever lived in Washington DC. That's kind of wild considering the competition includes every US president ever, among many others.

garfieldnate• 7 years ago

No fair, Ted Bundy gets Tallahassee AND Salt Lake City?

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