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| 4 | 1 | |
| 4 | 626 | |
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| 3.5 | 9.1 | |
| 10 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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68k.news: Basic HTML Google News for Vintage Computers
I share the frustration with the major online news portals, and have in fact built my own portal powered by Wikipedia[1].
But eventually I realized that my biggest gripe with news today isn't the presentation but the content. And I'm not talking about biases or sensationalism – I'm talking about the news items themselves.
Much of what passes as news today is stuff like "15 people die when a copper mine collapses in Chile". I'm trying to get a big picture view of the world, and I don't believe that such stories are at all conducive to that endeavor. News as we know it is just an endless stream of random events, apparently selected according to a handful of crude criteria, the most important one being dead people. I've been a keen follower of global news for many years, and I don't feel that I'm understanding anything.
Where are the truly novel approaches to painting a picture of what the world is today? Where are the quantitative news portals, the event pattern search engines, the automatically derived trends? I'm still looking.
[1] https://pastevents.org
- Ask HN: Replacement for Google News?
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Ask HN: Have you stopped reading most news?
I love Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal so much that I have built a search engine for it: https://pastevents.org/
PastEvents is my entry point to the news nowadays. It updates daily and I can look at source material and relevant articles linked directly from the event, as well as search the past for related events to understand chronology.
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[OC] The most common terms in Wikipedia's "Current Events" between January 2003 and September 2022
Wikipedia text obtained via the PastEvents.org database (application source code available here).
Wikipedia-API
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Webscraping the intro of multiple wiki pages - where do I even start?
You might want to check the following python libraries: - wikipedia - wikipedia-api
What are some alternatives?
wik - wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia.
Wikipedia-Article-Scraper - A complete Python text analytics package that allows users to search for a Wikipedia article, scrape it, conduct basic text analytics and integrate it to a data pipeline without writing excessive code.
pywikibot - A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.
taxopedia - Taxonomic trees (cladograms) from Wikipedia-scraped data.
wikipedia_ql - Query language for efficient data extraction from Wikipedia
SerializeThis - Scripts to convert Html to JSON without APIs
word_cloud - A little word cloud generator in Python
NLP-Model-for-Corpus-Similarity - A NLP algorithm I developed to determine the similarity or relation between two documents/Wikipedia articles. Inspired by the cosine similarity algorithm and built from WordNet.
mwparserfromhell - A Python parser for MediaWiki wikicode
wikiteam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis. As of 2024, WikiTeam has preserved more than 600,000 wikis.
MediaWiki-Tools - Tools for getting data from MediaWiki websites