On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
To be fair, I don't know how long it took Wikipedia to have an article for every country in the world - that would be an interesting question for someone to answer at some point - a standard list of countries with the date on which their Wikipedia articles were created (and a study of how the articles have increased in size since creation):
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/countries
A list generated from that page -- it's not perfect, but it's pretty good. The change in size is rather more difficult to study ;-)
Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%85land_Islands&oldid=72606...
Aland Islands is actually March 2003 - problem with redirects there.
So it looks like all that low-hanging fruit went by 2002, with the outliers by 2004. A bit slower than I'd thought, really. Though Denmark is earlier than the date on your list.
Not sure what is going on there.
Carcharoth