On 01/12/2010 01:18, geni wrote: > On 1 December 2010 00:01, Michael Peel<[email protected]> 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 density > largely independent of population. While cities will have more man > made objects it appears in many cases that is not enough to make up > the difference (this is why on a global scale Antarctica appears over > represented. All the mountains see). > I suspect that User:Morwen has quite a lot to do with it: systematically creating articles for parishes is going to "populate" say Lincolnshire rather well.
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