Which I never used because it requires permission to see my location, and at home, my ISP gives a location far from where I live anyway. So even if I allowed it, it would be meaningless.

So, unless there is some way to manually enter a town name or ZIP code that I missed, the feature is unusable, which is a shame.

There is: the link format is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/52.52000...

Change the lat long to any you want, and change "en." to other language codes to search a different (language) encyclopedia.

location can be set through browser add-ons or devtools/about:config

https://www.location-guard.com/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/change-geolocation-...