[WikiEN-l] The percentage of English Wikipedia articles about living people over time.

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 18:23:02 UTC 2007


On 18/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I dispute the notion that a subject can possibly deserve an
> article in one language, but not in another. I thought the mythical
> goal state was for every "valid topic" to have a corresponding article
> in every language.

Hmm. "Language" and "Language edition of Wikipedia" are subtly
different here. Consider, for example, the Japanese "no non-public
living figures" rule...

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- Andrew Gray
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