On 10 June 2015 at 16:46, Markus Krötzsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another country-based observation is that Italian locations are so much more
> popular than those in almost any other country. Here is a map showing only
> those items with at least 33 (!) sitelinks:
>
> http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/#d=0&m=items&l=en&f=1&e=33_336&c=48526&g=0.8&h=1.2&o=1&p=3&x=19.599609375&y=47.32393057095941&z=5
>
> Most of them are communes. Even tiny ones like
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42251 have articles in 33 different
> Wikipedias. It's a striking difference to basically all other countries.
> Overall, about one third of all items with articles on that many projects
> seem to be located in Italy.

I love the stories that get told through maps like this. Someone has
been hard at work on the regions of Soria (NE Spain), plus Bas-Rhin
and Ain in France. Really sharp borders!

> The map can also be used to highlight other country-specific differences,
> such as the unusually large amount of orphan items in The Netherlands and
> UK.

WLM-related historic site imports, I think...

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- Andrew Gray
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