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 ;-)
Sam