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It took me a while to realize that they are talking about the number of birthdays listed on the page about March 27[1], not actually combed from all Wikipedia p
by chavesn 11y ago
It took me a while to realize that they are talking about the number of birthdays listed on the page about March 27[1], not actually combed from all Wikipedia person pages, as I expected from the title.
To anyone who knows even a little about how Wikipedia is edited, this shouldn't be a mystery at all; there are no automatic pages or statistics, even for fixed entities like dates, and there is no automatic cross-referencing.
So as you'd expect, a person entered every birthday on that page, and there is absolutely no reason to assume that comparable detail has been given to all other days of the year.
(I'd hardly call this an easter egg, and I wish more people understood Wikipedia enough to make this entirely uninteresting.)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27
- NickNameNick 11y agoActually, there is some cross referencing. wikidata[1][2] is used in some places, for example the population of london could be stored in wikidata, and referenced from all the translations of the london article. Amusingly, Birthdays is the first example given in the wikipedia article about wikidata. [1]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata