[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/4/22 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>>> So it looks like all that low-hanging fruit went by 2002, with the
>>> outliers by 2004.
>>
>> Some of those outliers aren't universally recognised countries.
>> Transnistria, South Ossetia, etc. Some are regions of other countries
>> with varying levels of autonomy. Udmurtia, Mordovia, etc. The most
>> recently created article which is about something I recognise as a
>> widely recognised country (I have never committed the list of
>> countries to memory, so I may have missed one!) is Kenya, created in
>> February 2003.
>
> And, looking at Kenya's early article history it is clear that the
> current article was a rewrite of a previously existing article, which
> I can't find any trace of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenya&oldid=700553

Look at the "main article" links there.

It seems the early articles were "history of" and "geography of":

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Kenya&oldid=262268
(11 May 2001)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geography_of_Kenya&oldid=262269
(11 May 2001)

etc.

Carcharoth