[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Sam Korn]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> To be fair, I don't know how long it took Wikipedia to have an article
>>> for every country in the world - that would be an interesting question
>>> for someone to answer at some point - a standard list of countries
>>> with the date on which their Wikipedia articles were created (and a
>>> study of how the articles have increased in size since creation):
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
>>
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/countries
>>
>> A list generated from that page -- it's not perfect, but it's pretty
>> good.  The change in size is rather more difficult to study ;-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%85land_Islands&oldid=726060
>
> Aland Islands is actually March 2003 - problem with redirects there.
>
> So it looks like all that low-hanging fruit went by 2002, with the
> outliers by 2004. A bit slower than I'd thought, really. Though
> Denmark is earlier than the date on your list.
>
> Not sure what is going on there.

I went by the links on that page, and didn't check each one!  I think
the main problem is cut&paste moves or suchlike.

But yes, the overall picture is "most countries had articles by 2002",
so within two years of the beginning.

Sam

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