Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles

Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles
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I am absolutely baffled as to why this is the case. I have to imagine some kind of "astroturfed" effort by Woodard or a fan to spread his name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Woodard

This what you meant to post?

According to the wikidata, there are no articles for the United States in whatever languages VEP, GUR, and UR are, but:

https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikan_%C3%9Chtenzoittud_Va...

https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA...

https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America

Ended up being fairly easy to look for - I compared the David Woodard list to the United States list and found instances where it claimed there was an article for the former but not the latter. Most David Woodard articles have a link to where he was born (United States), so an easy crosscheck.

Though VE seems to be an outlier where there is a Woodward but not United States article: https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard

It saddens me that we will probably see the end of wikipedia soon.

The Wikimedia Foundation has been fined multiple times by Russian courts for example, it's just not in Russia's jurisdiction.

I expect the slow ramp of anti wikipedia rhetoric, which will all be plausible to the credulous, until public sentiment is swayed enough to strip their protections.

Now that college students are using completely unsourced, uninspectable chatgpt to write papers even that cohort won't protest.

And then instead of having a messy but checkable and certainly criticizable open repository of all human knowledge we will have opaque bs producers that are impossible to criticize because it will show eqch person what they want to see with no room for open debate or discussion and humanity will lose any attempt at curating shared, open touchstones of truth and fact.