At Newpage patrol I've been seeing quite a few articles about towns
and wildlife parks in Africa and South Asia, often by newby editors.
Getting them categorized, wikified and ideally referenced is enough
of a challenge let alone getting them geocoded.
But I do get the impression that we are filling in some of those
geographic gaps.
And most of the time I think they are being treated OK by the
deletionists. Though I did see one speedy tag where I wondered if the
tagger would have tagged as non notable a nature reserve of over
10,000 ha in North America or Western Europe.
WereSpielChequers
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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:21:50 +0000
From: Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
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Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a
sensible comment that broadband is only just coming to parts of Africa,
meaning we can expect more editing from there in future. Actually South
Asia needs a mention in that connection also.
Charles
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2009/12/3 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-g…
Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a
sensible comment that broadband is only just coming to parts of Africa,
meaning we can expect more editing from there in future. Actually South
Asia needs a mention in that connection also.
Charles
Original blog post has more maps:
http://zerogeography.blogspot.com/2009/11/mapping-geographies-of-wikipedia.…
Slovenia seems to have rather a high number of geocoded articles per
head of population.
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geni