I have updated the list at [[meta:Common Interwiki links]], containing the pages that, according to the English Wikipedia, have a link in many languages, but not in a given language. In this update, all languages that had at least 100 of the 200 most common subjects have been included; this makes 81 languages, up from 53 in the previous version (about two months ago).
Here the 20 most linked subjects. India is still most linked, and has in fact increased its lead by several miles, now (according to the article on en:) having an article in 234 Wikipedia languages.
1. (1) India 233 (+82) 2. (2) True Jesus Church 161 (+10) 3. (--) 2006 150 (+57) 4. (3) Wikipedia 142 (+7) 5. (6) Germany 136 (+10) 6. (4) Spain 132 (+3) 7. (5) Europe 129 (+2) 8. (11) France 128 (+11) 9. (7) Lithuania 128 (+3) 10. (9) Bible 127 (+6) 11. (8) United States 126 (+4) 12. (--) 2005 122 (+26) 13. (12) Russia 120 (+5) 14. (10) Kurów 118 (=) 15. (16) Christianity 116 (+8) 16. (15) Italy 115 (+6) 17. (14) English language 114 (+5) 18. (19) Astronomy 112 (+6) 19. (13) Geography 111 (+1) 20. (--) Africa 111 (+6)
Bubbling under: Biology, Norway, Poland
And because I love statistics and top lists, here again the top 100 persons deemed most worthy of a Wikipedia article (according to the existence of articles in various languages). Order where several had the same number decided by me (note: this is the number of languages, and thus one higher than what you see on the list, which shows the number of interwiki links)
1. (1) Jesus 110 2. (2) Albert Einstein 88 3. (4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 85 4. (3) George W. Bush 83 5. (6) Johan Sebastian Bach 83 6. (5) Adolf Hitler 83 7. (7) Pope Benedict XVI 79 8. (8) Ludwig von Beethoven 77 9. (10) Pope John Paul II 75 10. (11) Christopher Columbus 74 11. (9) Leonardo da Vinci 74 12. (13) Karl Marx 73 13. (12) Charles Darwin 72 14. (19) Vladimir Lenin 71 15. (14) Isaac Newton 71 16. (18) Aristotle 69 17. (16) Mahatma Gandhi 69 18. (15) Plato 67 19. (28) Kofi Annan 67 20. (17) William Shakespeare 67 21. (24) Galileo Galilei 66 22. (**) Che Guevara 66 23. (23) Jacques Chirac 66 24. (26) Vladimir Putin 65 25. (21) Muhammad 64 26. (20) J. R. R. Tolkien 64 27. (31) Alexander the Great 63 28. (49) Ferdinand Magellan 63 29. (25) Pythagoras 63 30. (38) Vincent van Gogh 63 31. (54) Marco Polo 63 32. (29) Tony Blair 63 33. (22) Fidel Castro 63 34. (44) Johann Wolfgang Goethe 62 35. (40) Angela Merkel 62 36. (34) Bill Gates 62 37. (51) Nelson Mandela 62 38. (37) Socrates 61 37. (36) Homer 61 38. (33) Joseph Stalin 61 39. (48) Sigmund Freud 61 40. (27) Sid Vicious 61 41. (35) Marie Curie 61 42. (55) Roald Amundsen 61 43. (39) Winston Churchill 61 44. (32) Julius Caesar 60 45. (30) Napoleon I of France 60 46. (47) Benito Mussolini 60 48. (52) Thomas Edison 60 49. (43) Archimedes 59 50. (41) Genghis Khan 59 51. (60) George Washington 59 52. (56) Immanuel Kant 59 53. (42) Yasser Arafat 59 54. (57) Pablo Picasso 59 55. (46) George Orwell 59 56. (45) Alfred Nobel 59 57. (61) Osama bin Laden 58 58. (50) Nicolaus Copernicus 58 59. (53) Bill Clinton 58 60. (59) Abraham Lincoln 58 61. (58) Linus Torvalds 58 62. (**) James Cook 57 63. (66) Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 57 64. (76) René Descartes 57 65. (64) Friedrich Nietzsche 56 66. (69) John F. Kennedy 56 67. (62) Alan Turing 56 68. (72) Dante Alighieri 55 69. (71) Gerhard Schröder 52 70. (67) Martin Luther 55 71. (--) Jacques Cartier 55 72. (70) Vasco da Gama 55 73. (65) Richard Wagner 55 74. (68) Richard Stallman 55 75. (63) Thomas Jefferson 55 76. (79) Carolus Linnaeus 54 77. (78) Fyodor Dostoevsky 54 78. (--) Francis Drake 54 79. (77) Ronald Reagan 54 80. (**) Charlemagne 53 81. (83) Ernest Hemingway 53 82. (80) Leon Trotsky 53 83. (--) Noam Chomsky 53 84. (89) Victor Hugo 53 85. (74) Elvis Presley 53 86. (85) John Lennon 53 87. (73) Johannes Gutenberg 53 88. (--) Hernán Cortés 52 89. (84) Joan of Arc 52 90. (--) Franklin D. Roosevelt 52 91. (87) Michelangelo 52 92. (--) Charles de Gaulle 52 93. (81) Albert Camus 52 94. (75) Leonhard Euler 52 95. (--) Isaac Asimov 52 96. (96) Johannes Kepler 52 97. (--) Mao Zedong 51 98. (--) Saddam Hussein 51 99. (--) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 51 100. (--) Indira Gandhi 51
Also 51: Otto von Bismarck, Jimmy Carter, Friedrich Engels, Edmund Hillary, J. K. Rowling, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ariel Sharon, Harry S. Truman
**: These had been missed by me last time I composed this list. Che Guevara would have been around position 20, James Cook around 71 and Charlemagne around 74.
On 28/11/06, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
- (2) True Jesus Church 161 (+10)
(...)
- (1) Jesus 110
Something seems a bit weird there.
And here the pages that, as far as I could see, got the most extra interwiki links during these last two months. Only pages that had 1 or more interwiki links last time have been included, though. Also, where I found that there was a different page on that title 2 months ago, pages have been removed. A remark on the cause of the growth has been given, where I could discern it.
1. India +82 to 233 2. 2006 +57 to 150 3. Informatics +41 to 42 (other languages used to link to [[computer science]]) 4. Musa (genus) +38 to 45 (got a load of links that are also linked from [[banana]]) 5. Persian Empire +31 to 35 (was in a vandalised state 2 months ago) 6. Octave Mirbeau +31 to 46 (someone seems to have translated a stub into many languages) 7. Ban Ki-moon +30 to 35 (next secretary-general of the UN) 8. Frankfurt +30 to 53 9. Tortoise +28 to 39 (now linked to many languages that have a single article for turtles and tortoises) 10. 2005 +28 to 122 11. Advertising +27 to 29 12. September +27 to 92 13. Muhammad Yunus +25 to 33 (won the Nobel Peace Prize) 14. Korn +25 to 49 (has a new album?) 15. Hesse +25 to 65 16. Adam's Rib +24 to 26 (incorrectly linked to Adam in several languages - reverted) 17. Orhan Pamuk +24 to 47 (won the Nobel Prize for Literature) 18. Freedom of speech (international) +23 to 24 (linked to pages that are also linked from Freedom of speech) 19. Tributary +23 to 24 20. Republic of China +23 to 65 21. Wakker Prize +22 to 25 (mistake: had included Category:Prizes rather than been put in it) 22. Toxicity +22 to 30 (has been linked to pages on [[poison]] instead. I think the old links were better) 23. Game Boy +21 to 22 24. Anna Politkovskaya +21 to 28 (was murdered) 25. Karlstad Municipality +21 to 31 26. Bhopal (state) +19 to 20 27. Olimpia +18 to 19 (disamb; now linked to disambiguation pages Olympia as well as Olimpia) 28. Edmund Phelps +18 to 21 (Nobel Prize winner in economics) 29. Ségolène Royal +18 to 32 (French socialist presidential election candidate) 30. Battle of the Frontiers +17 to 18 (incorrectly linked to Battle of Jutland; reverted) 31. Geothermal heating +17 to 18 (linked to geothermal energy/power in many languages)
A few more that got high because of the news: Grameen Bank +17 to 22 (co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan +16 to 17 (film released internationally) Borat +16 to 23 (lead figure of aformentioned film) Nancy Pelosi +14 to 19 (stays Democratic leader in the House, now majority leader) Daniel Ortega +14 to 25 (winner Nicaragua presidential elections) Surayud Cholanont +12 to 14 (new prime minister of Thailand) September 2006 +12 to 16 (recent month) Pieter Willem Botha +12 to 23 (died) Robert Gates +11 to 12 (U.S. secretary of defense nominee) October 2006 +11 to 13 (recent month)
A good portion of the articles about India are empty articles or have only a map or flag. They should probably be deleted. They were created by a user whose sole aim was to increase the number of languages for that article.
True Jesus Church has been the subject of similar efforts by an individual, but it's not quite as bad (no empty pages and the like), but there are a few of them that are just written in English with a "request to be translated".
Linking to such non-articles is not constructive.
Mark
On 28/11/06, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
And here the pages that, as far as I could see, got the most extra interwiki links during these last two months. Only pages that had 1 or more interwiki links last time have been included, though. Also, where I found that there was a different page on that title 2 months ago, pages have been removed. A remark on the cause of the growth has been given, where I could discern it.
- India +82 to 233
- 2006 +57 to 150
- Informatics +41 to 42 (other languages used to link to [[computer
science]]) 4. Musa (genus) +38 to 45 (got a load of links that are also linked from [[banana]]) 5. Persian Empire +31 to 35 (was in a vandalised state 2 months ago) 6. Octave Mirbeau +31 to 46 (someone seems to have translated a stub into many languages) 7. Ban Ki-moon +30 to 35 (next secretary-general of the UN) 8. Frankfurt +30 to 53 9. Tortoise +28 to 39 (now linked to many languages that have a single article for turtles and tortoises) 10. 2005 +28 to 122 11. Advertising +27 to 29 12. September +27 to 92 13. Muhammad Yunus +25 to 33 (won the Nobel Peace Prize) 14. Korn +25 to 49 (has a new album?) 15. Hesse +25 to 65 16. Adam's Rib +24 to 26 (incorrectly linked to Adam in several languages - reverted) 17. Orhan Pamuk +24 to 47 (won the Nobel Prize for Literature) 18. Freedom of speech (international) +23 to 24 (linked to pages that are also linked from Freedom of speech) 19. Tributary +23 to 24 20. Republic of China +23 to 65 21. Wakker Prize +22 to 25 (mistake: had included Category:Prizes rather than been put in it) 22. Toxicity +22 to 30 (has been linked to pages on [[poison]] instead. I think the old links were better) 23. Game Boy +21 to 22 24. Anna Politkovskaya +21 to 28 (was murdered) 25. Karlstad Municipality +21 to 31 26. Bhopal (state) +19 to 20 27. Olimpia +18 to 19 (disamb; now linked to disambiguation pages Olympia as well as Olimpia) 28. Edmund Phelps +18 to 21 (Nobel Prize winner in economics) 29. Ségolène Royal +18 to 32 (French socialist presidential election candidate) 30. Battle of the Frontiers +17 to 18 (incorrectly linked to Battle of Jutland; reverted) 31. Geothermal heating +17 to 18 (linked to geothermal energy/power in many languages)
A few more that got high because of the news: Grameen Bank +17 to 22 (co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan +16 to 17 (film released internationally) Borat +16 to 23 (lead figure of aformentioned film) Nancy Pelosi +14 to 19 (stays Democratic leader in the House, now majority leader) Daniel Ortega +14 to 25 (winner Nicaragua presidential elections) Surayud Cholanont +12 to 14 (new prime minister of Thailand) September 2006 +12 to 16 (recent month) Pieter Willem Botha +12 to 23 (died) Robert Gates +11 to 12 (U.S. secretary of defense nominee) October 2006 +11 to 13 (recent month)
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Andrew Gray wrote:
On 28/11/06, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
- (2) True Jesus Church 161 (+10)
(...)
- (1) Jesus 110
Something seems a bit weird there.
Even as between these two you would expect [[Jesus]] to have more links than an obscure cult.
I also spot checked some of the links from [[India]] for less well known languages. It turns out that many of them have the same one paragraph stub in English plus the flag of India. Perhaps some Indian nationalist has been keeping himself busy.
Ec
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