It's very surprising that rural locations are a lot better covered on Wikipedia
than city areas - what's going on here?
Mike
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From: steve virgin st...@mediafocusuk.com
Date: 30 November 2010 23:55:39 GMT
To: 'Wikimedia UK Board mailing list' bo...@wikimedia.org.uk
They are better covered with respect to current population, but not
with respect to Land area..
I suspect that a couple of phenomena are at play here. One is that
many of our articles are about historic sites and they are more evenly
spread as many predate the great drift to the towns in the
On 1 December 2010 00:01, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's very surprising that rural locations are a lot better covered on
Wikipedia than city areas - what's going on here?
Mike
Only when ranked by population.
Geographic features (rather than man made ones) occur at a
