At Newpage patrol I've been seeing quite a few articles about towns and wildlife parks in Africa and South Asia, often by newby editors. Getting them categorized, wikified and ideally referenced is enough of a challenge let alone getting them geocoded.
But I do get the impression that we are filling in some of those geographic gaps. And most of the time I think they are being treated OK by the deletionists. Though I did see one speedy tag where I wondered if the tagger would have tagged as non notable a nature reserve of over 10,000 ha in North America or Western Europe. WereSpielChequers > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:21:50 +0000 > From: Charles Matthews <[email protected]> > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Technology Guardian article on global article > distribution > To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge > > Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a > sensible comment that broadband is only just coming to parts of Africa, > meaning we can expect more editing from there in future. Actually South > Asia needs a mention in that connection also. > > Charles > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:49:54 +0000 > From: geni <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Technology Guardian article on global article > distribution > To: [email protected], English Wikipedia > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2009/12/3 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge >> >> Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a >> sensible comment that broadband is only just coming to parts of Africa, >> meaning we can expect more editing from there in future. Actually South >> Asia needs a mention in that connection also. >> >> Charles >> > > Original blog post has more maps: > > http://zerogeography.blogspot.com/2009/11/mapping-geographies-of-wikipedia.html > > Slovenia seems to have rather a high number of geocoded articles per > head of population. > > > -- > geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
