Regarding featured articles, I conducted a small study (should be out in
Oct.) on the Portuguese Wikipedia about those related to Ancient History.
Although the sample was obviously small, my findings were clear and
confirmed by many admins later: most articles are translations/new material
made by
on a slightly related note, I analyzed the cultural preferences for image,
references, links, word count etc. saturation in good and featured articles
on 8 wikis and found significant cultural variation:
http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf
best,
dj
On Tue, Jul
Interesting topic! Here is a useful analogy regarding the distribution of
sizes. There has been study of how big cities are within countries or
worldwide, and there are recurring patterns of the scale of the largest to the
second largest, and the second-largest to the third, and so forth.
> Why do you think different language Wikipedia's have different
> sizes, outside of the popularity of a given language?
Piotr, if you model organic editing production with a Poisson
distribution, which is reasonable for a first approximation, 3x+
disparities are just natural for the same
