On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sam Korn
<smoddy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)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):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
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=7260…
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.
I went by the links on that page, and didn't check each one! I think
the main problem is cut&paste moves or suchlike.
But yes, the overall picture is "most countries had articles by 2002",
so within two years of the beginning.
Sam
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