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This was a draft for a blog post that has since been published at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/23/do-you-know-whats-around-you-let-wikipedia-tell-you/

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Do you know what's around you? Let Wikipedia tell you!

Brief Description

The Wikimedia App team has just added the first native "Nearby" functionality to the new Android and iOS Wikipedia apps. Using this feature, you'll be able to retrieve a list of Wikipedia articles near your current location and see their relative distance to you. You'll even notice a handy compass arrow that points to the direction for each location and updates as you move.

Simply single tap an entry to read the article, or long-press an entry to open in map view.

With this feature, we're bringing Wikipedia into the world around you and enabling you to explore and learn more about your surroundings. Perhaps you've always wondered about that monument that you pass during your commute home, been curious about an architecturally interesting building, or simply wanted a to-do list while traveling. Now, the new Wikipedia app can surface those for you, and maybe it'll even inspire you to add your own.

Possible things to come

We have some exciting and ambitious ideas of where we could go next:

Filtering nearby items by category, so that you could read more about specific things you're interested in near you, such as museums or historic buildings.
Searching for other articles that are near the article you're currently reading.
Letting you drop a pin on a map so you can see articles tagged near that location.

What do you think?

Don't hesitate to send us feedback about this and make sure to download our latest Android or iOS beta. We want to know what you'd like to see in future updates, and to hear your ideas for making the apps even more awesome!

And if you love to code, do take a pass on our GeoData API and show us what you've built.

Dmitry Brant, Software Engineer
Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile
Dan Garry, Associate Product Manager
Monte Hurd, Software Engineer
Kristen Lans, ScrumMaster

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+'''This was a draft for a blog post that has since been published at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/23/do-you-know-whats-around-you-let-wikipedia-tell-you/ '''
+<div style="background-color:#bbbbbb; color:#999999">
+== Title ==
+Do you know what's around you? Let Wikipedia tell you!
 == Brief Description ==
 [[File:Nearby in iOS.PNG|thumb|Screenshot of the Nearby feature in the Wikipedia iOS App.]]
 [[File:Nearby in Android.png|thumb|Screenshot of the Nearby feature in the Wikipedia Android App.]]
-The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team Wikimedia App team] has just added the first native "Nearby" functionality to the [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/31/official-wikipedia-app-available-on-ios-and-android/ new Android and iOS Wikipedia apps]. Using this feature you'll be able to retrieve a list of Wikipedia articles near your current location and see their relative distance to you. You'll even notice a handy compass arrow gives you a quick indication of what direction you'll have to head for each location that updates as you move.
+The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team Wikimedia App team] has just added the first native "Nearby" functionality to the [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/31/official-wikipedia-app-available-on-ios-and-android/ new Android and iOS Wikipedia apps]. Using this feature, you'll be able to retrieve a list of Wikipedia articles near your current location and see their relative distance to you. You'll even notice a handy compass arrow that points to the direction for each location and updates as you move.
-For a more traditional map view you can always long-press an entry, or simply single tap to read the article.
+Simply single tap an entry to read the article, or long-press an entry to open in map view.
-Using this feature we're bringing Wikipedia into the world around you and hopefully allowing you to explore and learn more about your surroundings. Perhaps you've always wondered about that monument during your commute home, been curious about an interesting architectural building, or simple wanted a todo list while traveling. Now, the new Wikipedia can surface those for you and maybe it'll even inspire you to add your own.
+With this feature, we're bringing Wikipedia into the world around you and enabling you to explore and learn more about your surroundings. Perhaps you've always wondered about that monument that you pass during your commute home, been curious about an architecturally interesting building, or simply wanted a to-do list while traveling. Now, the new Wikipedia app can surface those for you, and maybe it'll even inspire you to add your own.
-== Possible things to come ==
+=== Possible things to come ===
-We have some exciting and ambitious ideas of where we could go next
+We have some exciting and ambitious ideas of where we could go next:
-* Filtering nearby items by category - maybe you're interested in seeing just nearby museums, or historic buildings.
+* Filtering nearby items by category, so that you could read more about specific things you're interested in near you, such as museums or historic buildings.
-* Searching for other articles that are "nearby" the article you're currently reading.
+* Searching for other articles that are near the article you're currently reading.
-* Or, once we work out some techical details, it might be cool to let you drop a pin on a map and see articles tagged near that location.
+* Letting you drop a pin on a map so you can see articles tagged near that location.
+=== What do you think? ===
-[KEEP IT AT THREE and either delete or promote the one below]
+Don't hesitate to send us [mailto:mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org feedback] about this and make sure to download our latest [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta Android] or [http://tflig.ht/1dhqz8j iOS] beta.  We want to know what you'd like to see in future updates, and to hear your ideas for making the apps even more awesome!
-A "fullscreen" compass type view might also be useful when you've decided to zero in on a specific article location.
+And if you love to code, do take a pass on our [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/31/geodata-a-new-age-of-geotagging-on-wikipedia/ GeoData] API and show us what you've built.
-== What do you think? ==
+Dmitry Brant, Software Engineer<br/>
-Don't hesitate to send us feedback [EMAIL] about this, or any other, feature.  We want to know what you'd like to see in future updates, and to hear your ideas for making the apps even more awesome! And if you love to code do take a pass on our [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/31/geodata-a-new-age-of-geotagging-on-wikipedia/ GeoData] API and show us what you've built.
+Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile<br/>
+Dan Garry, Associate Product Manager<br/>
+Monte Hurd, Software Engineer<br/>
+Kristen Lans, ScrumMaster
+</div>