On 09/01/07, Michael Billington <michael.billington(a)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.