On 10 June 2015 at 16:46, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Another country-based observation is that Italian locations are so much more popular than those in almost any other country. Here is a map showing only those items with at least 33 (!) sitelinks:
http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/#d=0&m=items&l=en...
Most of them are communes. Even tiny ones like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42251 have articles in 33 different Wikipedias. It's a striking difference to basically all other countries. Overall, about one third of all items with articles on that many projects seem to be located in Italy.
I love the stories that get told through maps like this. Someone has been hard at work on the regions of Soria (NE Spain), plus Bas-Rhin and Ain in France. Really sharp borders!
The map can also be used to highlight other country-specific differences, such as the unusually large amount of orphan items in The Netherlands and UK.
WLM-related historic site imports, I think...