It took me a few days of fiddling around with shell scripts and node.js, but I finally managed to wrestle Wikipedia’s syntax to the ground. I now have a chronologically ordered list, all in one place, of every historical event that the Wikipedia community considers to be significant enough to mention.<\/p>\n
The list preserves all of the links to the original Wikipedia articles. You can check it out HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now the real fun begins. Anybody can use what I created as a resource just by viewing source and copying that from their browser.<\/p>\n The question is, how do you go through it, filter it, visualize it, etc., to suit your purposes? Personally, I am interested in creating landscapes of history that I can interact with in VR.<\/p>\n VR provides an opportunity to make a kind of immersive memory palace out of history. There are all sorts of unanswered questions about how best to organize such a memory palace.<\/p>\n But that’s why it’s fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It took me a few days of fiddling around with shell scripts and node.js, but I finally managed to wrestle Wikipedia’s syntax to the ground. I now have a chronologically ordered list, all in one place, of every historical event that the Wikipedia community considers to be significant enough to mention. The list preserves all … Continue reading “Reordering Wikipedia history, part 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24844,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions\/24844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}