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It's interesting to see that en.wp was the only project that experienced quadratic growth in the number of articles. en.wp and de.wp were pretty close in size
by redthrowaway 15y ago
It's interesting to see that en.wp was the only project that experienced quadratic growth in the number of articles. en.wp and de.wp were pretty close in size until the start of 2006, when en.wp took off and de.wp continued with more or less linear growth.
I'm aware that the english speaking world is larger than the german speaking one, and that a feedback effect exists in large networks with little downtime (ie, no time of the day where contribution dies off, due to the geographical dispersion of english-speaking countries), but I'm still surprised that en.wp was the only project to experience quadratic growth.
- idonthack 15y agoA significant portion of articles on any wikipedia are about cities, towns, local governments, local businesses, minor celebrities, landmarks, &c. For major locations like New York or Berlin, there will of course be articles in many languages, but other things that are insignificant outside their locality are likely to only have an article in their native language. Take for example the Catalan wikipedia, which contains a large number of stubs with basic info on locations in rural Catalonia. [1] The English-speaking world is vastly larger in land area and population than the German-speaking world, so I speculate that the difference in size is due to the number of location-relevant articles. [1] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/geographically_dense_wikipedia.html http://www.kmjn.org/notes/geographically_dense_wikipedia.htm...