WikiNearby is a tool to see Wikipedia articles near a given sets of coordinates, a given article, or your location. It is hosted at https://wikinearby.toolforge.org/.
The required Python dependences are located in requirements.txt
. They can be Installed with the command pip install -r requirements.txt
.
Copy the file config-example.ini
to config.ini
and fill in the fields with the values from your replica.my.cnf
.
Enable development by setting dev
to yes
in the config.ini
. In this mode the tool connects to the database at localhost
using port 4711
for the meta
database and 4712
for the Wikipedia databases.
You can connect to the database replicas using the command ssh -N USERNAME@login.toolforge.org -L 4711:meta.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud:3306 -L 4712:enwiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud:3306
. enwiki
can be replaced with the name of the database of any other Wikipedia.