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It's rare that I can't find some article about the "rest of the world" on Wikipedia that I'm looking for. What part of the world have I been overlooking?
by angus77 16y ago
It's rare that I can't find some article about the "rest of the world" on Wikipedia that I'm looking for. What part of the world have I been overlooking?
- carussell 16y agoI realize your question was mostly flippant and not directed at me, but to answer the question seriously: The English Wikipedia is amazing, but it's incredibly ethnocentric in its coverage. There're a lot of red links here, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_articles_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_articles_by_.... Unfortunately, when you are looking for information that's not something the average native English-speaking editor has knowledge of, and you are able to find some information, sometimes those writing it have a vested interest in the topic at hand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_supremacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_supremacy is a minor example.
- owyn 16y agoYep, nail+head. Sounds like this is going to be a big institutional focus for the next couple of years as well... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8292978/Wikipedia-seeks-women-writers.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8292978/Wiki... Somethingawful even made a game out of it, the results of which were quoted in that article: For example, the article on "Women's suffrage" is around the same length as the "List of fictional gynoids and female cyborgs", and Shakespeare's Henry VIII is given as much attention as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- angus77 16y agoAs long as the articles on Women's Suffrage and Henry VIII are of appropriate length and depth, I don't see how this is a problem. Is this a contest or something?