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If you speak other languages Wikipedia certainly gets very interesting. German Wikipedia is pretty good, for some topics it is better than English Wikipedia. Bu
by aeyes 7y ago
If you speak other languages Wikipedia certainly gets very interesting. German Wikipedia is pretty good, for some topics it is better than English Wikipedia. But Spanish Wikipedia is quite sad to read, todays articles have the quality I remember from when Wikipedia was 2 or 3 years old even though there are many times more Spanish than German speakers in the world.
Then there are the Swedish and Cebuana Wikipedias which are large but were mostly created by a bot with almost useless stub articles.
It makes me wonder what information sources other countries like China, India or Japan use.
- Bayart 7y agoI absolutely recommend people don't stay just think of the English version as the default. Other language communities certainly produce better articles on subjects they're closer to or where they have a better scholarly tradition. I tend to consult the German and Catalan (!) versions quite a bit, besides the French and English ones.
- SJSque 7y agoWhat's always struck me is how large the Dutch Wikipedia is (1,992,551 articles), given the relatively low number of people that speak that language. They would appear to be a pretty tech-savvy/well-connected nation. It's certainly consistent with the number of comments that I see here on HN that start with some variation on "Here in the Netherlands...".
- aeyes 7y agoThis page isn't up to date but it mentions that many Dutch articles were created by bots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Wikipedia This up to date graph from the German Wikipedia clearly shows the jumps: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Wikipedia-Artikelanzahl-Entwicklung-Top8.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Wikipedi...