On 09/01/07, Michael Billington michael.billington@gmail.com wrote:
On one side we have western places. For instance, Wikipedia has an article about my town, political division and local member of parliament. My town and surrounding ones (all of which have wiki articles) have a population of 1,500 or so. Rambot has written articles about towns 1/10th of the size of mine.
Rambot has written articles about towns with zero inhabitants.
This is not a bad thing - it's not like completeness of coverage costs us paper, and we can claim to cover EVERY settlement known to the US Census.
*And I may be a bit too ambitious in assuming we have editors from just about every country
One of the reasons for the popularity of en:wp (still 54% of all wikipedia.org traffic) is its breadth. Far too often, I have trouble convincing non-English-native-speakers that their native language Wikipedia is worth their close attention. en:wp's ridiculous breadth seems to add perceptible value in practice.
- d.