Show HN: Tiny weekend project from scraped Wikipedia data: whodiedhere.com

[JPKab]

Awesome work man! Nice to see people making use of DBpedia too, even if it's indirectly. (I'm sure it would be too slow without putting it in your own database.)

Are you going to put the source code up on Github? I'd love to see it, since I'm relatively new to messing around with Node and haven't even touched Socket.IO yet.

[ddod]

I just put it up on Github now: https://github.com/benwasser/whodiedhere

After I built this I played around with some other information in dbpedia to see if I could get anything juicy out of it. No luck so far, but I'm sure there's a lot to uncover.

[gnufs]

The search result for 'Berlin' includes Isaiah Berlin ---------------------------- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

[ddod]

Yeah, I wanted to keep things simple and let people search by name, too, even if it's a little outside the scope of the site. I'll run the issue by the board of directors.

[anusinha]

Awesome project. Are you releasing the source code?

[ddod]

Thanks! https://github.com/benwasser/whodiedhere

[morsch]

Neat. How are you doing it?

[ddod]

I had to use a couple databases from dbpedia to get all the information (the death location syntax wasn't uniform) to make my own more manageable database.

As for the server, it's just Node.js and Socket.IO

[hnriot]

The people returned in the results would be much more useful if they were clickable links back to Wikipedia.

Edit: also, its a little thing, but please add autocorrect="off" to your input element, the iPad keeps mistakenly auto correcting place names.