Michael Noda schreef:
On 9/28/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'd expect our article totals to go through the roof as the internet rolls out into India, for example. Nearly a billion people who have English as the language of learning. How many topics are there in India?
Do we have an article on every municipality, Rambot-style? And if we have that for India, how about China? Russia? Argentina? Brazil? ISTR Italy gave us 10,000 articles at once, and Italy is a pretty middle-sized country, geographically.
[[User:Ganeshbot]] has added a large number of articles on cities, towns and villages, but I don't think it's even close to being complete. The list of created articles is only 94 kB, so it cannot be more than ~6000.
But even France, for example, still has a lot of missing communes. See for example the list of [[Communes of the Orne department]]. And there are 35,000 of them. Italy had ~8000.
Unfortunately, many countries do not publish enough local statistics in a format that is easy to process by bots; or at least, it is difficult to find. We could perhaps copy the information from other languages; France for example seems to be complete in frwiki.
Eugene