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God I wish Wikipedia wasn't banned by the Great Firewall. It's kinda sad that stuff like Caltrain electrification, for example, has a huge and well-researched
by porphyra 3y ago
God I wish Wikipedia wasn't banned by the Great Firewall.
It's kinda sad that stuff like Caltrain electrification, for example, has a huge and well-researched article despite not even being in service yet, just because of the large amount of Wikipedians in the Bay Area where the Wikimedia Foundation is headquartered. In the meanwhile, entire operational train systems both in China and elsewhere in the world that have vastly greater ridership, longer length, more advanced technology, etc, get nary a mention. I have nothing against Caltrain electrification getting a great article since I'm an inclusionist but it is just sad how little of the cool things, especially in China, are on Wikipedia.
- yorwba 3y agoEven with the Great Firewall, Chinese Wikipedia is the eighth largest by number of edits, daily views, and active users: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table2 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table2 Chinese topics are usually well-covered on the Chinese Wikipedia, the lack of an English-language article is more likely to be attributable to a shortage of English-Chinese bilinguals translating that information. Do you have some particular train system in mind?
- porphyra 3y agoChinese Wikipedia is mostly made by Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese people so they often are not as comprehensive for recent developments in the mainland.