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I found this very interesting and tried to find the most surprising entries on the list. One of them is Šiprage, a settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a p

I found this very interesting and tried to find the most surprising entries on the list. One of them is Šiprage, a settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a population of 992. It has wikipedia pages in 225 languages, more than "Internet" (224). I wonder why. Fascinating post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iprage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iprage

mdp2021 1y ago
> I wonder why A very active member of their community armed with a translator, very probably.
- ivanjermakov 1y ago
  With 225 translators haha
  - mdp2021 1y ago
    ? A single multilingual electronic translator...
AStonesThrow 1y ago
There is a lot of low-hanging fruit for low-effort, semi-automated article creators. One of the favorite areas is CDPs and really small towns. You can pick up gazettes and databases full of places that have, like, one post office or a singular train station. They may be ghost towns or mining towns or something. Then you just vomit them all into individual articles. There is some debate about the notability, accuracy, and utility of such articles. Many are forever doomed to be stubs, just from a lack of real documentation about them. Often people will find that the place never really existed per se despite its very real entry in the database.