About noir.wiki

noir.wiki is an index of 73,754 interesting Wikipedia articles — disasters, incidents, disappearances, crimes and mysteries — cross-linked across 11 languages and enriched with structured facts (dates, death tolls, locations) and a map.

How it's built

A pipeline scans the Wikipedia article dumps for event-type titles across English, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, German, French, Portuguese, Italian and Polish, clusters each topic's translations together, and enriches them from Wikidata and each article's infobox. Some short descriptions and English display titles are machine-translated.

Sources & licenses

Article text & descriptions — from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. This site's derived text (generated summaries, machine translations) is likewise offered under CC BY-SA 4.0, and changes have been made — events are re-summarized, titles translated, and facts reformatted.
Structured data (dates, death tolls, coordinates, types) — from Wikidata (CC0) and article infoboxes.
Popularity — from the public Wikimedia pageview counts (CC0).
Book recommendations — cited editions and reader ratings from Open Library.

Privacy

This site sets no cookies and shows no ads. We use privacy-preserving, cookieless web analytics (aggregate page views only) — no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting, and no personal profiles.

Links

Every event links to the original Wikipedia article(s). Explore the interactive map & table →