2009/4/22 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/4/22 Carcharoth carcharothwp@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=26226... (11 May 2001)
It's clear from the notice at the top of the earliest revision that there was an article called "Kenya" as well. I expect it pre-dated the X of Kenya articles.