On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sam Korn <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> >> 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 -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
