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What'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
by SJSque 7y ago
What'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...