[WikiEN-l] Chile earthquake article vs Haiti earthquake article

[Carcharoth]

Has anyone been following the way editing has developed on the
en-Wikipedia articles on the Haiti and Chile earthquakes? It looks
quite different to me. For some reason, the editing has tailed off a
lot on the Chile earthquake article (could the fact that the article
was semi-protected for the past 5 days have anything to do with
that?), but the editing on the Haiti earthquake article kept on going.
Of course, the Haiti earthquake (rightly) got more press coverage, but
our article on the Chile earthquake is not in a good state.

Compare the en-wiki article with the (es) Spanish Wikipedia one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terremoto_de_Chile_de_2010

The Spanish Wikipedia one is a lot better organised and better
focused. The en-Wikipedia one is more rambling and fails to focus on
Chile and says a lot more about the tsunami warnings around the
Pacific (which is old news now).

There are suggestions on the talk page to try and fix this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2010_Chile_earthquake&diff=347843229&oldid=347824475

But I still find it surprising. It is not as if there is a lack of
sources in English (though there are more in Spanish), some of which I
put on the talk page which got zero response.

Compare with the Haiti earthquake article (which also had large blocks
of semi-protection, so that can't explain it):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake

Anyone have any idea why the two articles developed (and stalled) in
such different ways, and had a very different pattern of editing
volume and frequency? Is it purely down to the Chile earthquake
getting less news coverage?

Carcharoth