Places With the Most Wikipedia Articles

Trepidity writes "Wikipedia has been making an effort to mark up articles with latitude-longitude coordinates when they refer to a specific location. It's now been done for over a million articles (across all languages). I was curious which parts of the world have gotten the most coverage. The answer: Florence, Italy has the most articles within a 1-km-diameter circle; and London tops both the 10-km and 100-km lists. Full results and methodology details are available."

Comments

Re:who gives a fuck?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who the fuck cares?

I do. I find geo stuff always super-interesting and am grateful that there are people out there who take the effort to analyze this.

Re:who gives a fuck?

[Alef]

I don't know, but some evidently do. May I ask, why do you care who cares?

No, Poland

[Len]

If I click "Random Article" a few times, it'll soon come up with a village in Poland - a lot more often than France.

The power of Wikipedia

[egil]

I had the honour and pleasure of starting this thing. I see the Wikiproject article was created 09:15, 13 February 2005. I made some convention for adding the lat/lon coordinates, which then linked to a small website that had proper link to various map resources (this was before OpenStreetMap). I documented it, then manually added links to a few articles, just to have some critical mass to start it off. After that, it kind of caught on, and now we have a million articles with coordianates, and a whole lot of super mobile phone apps and other applications I could never have imagined.

So you can bash WIkipedia all you want, but to me, this really shows the immense power of Wikipedia.

Re:True but..

[oever]

The areas would improve over time by editing. An area or set of areas is, for most topics, an improvement over a single point. Few areas will be perfect, certainly initially, just like the articles themselves are not perfect. But as often, here too perfection is the enemy of success.

Many boundaries are defined by states. In case of disagreement, multiple areas can be mentioned, just like different versions of the facts, with an explanation of the origins, can be present on a Wikipedia page.

The best way forward, is to add support for areas to WikiMedia so people can start improving the pages. The points can also be retained to mean the center of a certain area.