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Cool idea, the main problem I saw when clicking around is that the granularity of people's place of birth (all via wikipedia) is not consistent. Like, one perso
by wink 4y ago
Cool idea, the main problem I saw when clicking around is that the granularity of people's place of birth (all via wikipedia) is not consistent. Like, one person has my city listed, so this person "owns" the entry for the city, but 10 other people have parts of the city listed (so their wikipedia entry is more correct), so they're listed for that part of town, be it an official part or not. For some people a specific building is known (usually not a hospital), so they "only" own this building. It's a bit weird.
- throwaway2016a 4y agoI noticed the same thing. Boston, for instance has a ton of people in individual neighborhoods but smaller cities have one person representing the whole city. Also, it relies on birth location. So someone who, say, left a city and moved at age 5 will be associated with the city they only lived in for 5 years not the one they spent their formatives years in. Still a fun experiment, though.