[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Which look in turn like they are from the CIA World Fact Book, or
something similar.

Carcharoth