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Fascinating post.
Apparently, the article for David Woodard, an American composer and conductor has been translated into 333 languages, including Seediq, a language spoken in Northern Taiwan by about 20 thousand people. 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
Definitely working off an incomplete data set from wikidata. 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…
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
A very active member of their community armed with a translator, very probably.
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
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.
333: David Woodard
275: Michael Jackson
274: Jesus
252: Donald Trump, who is very happy he's ahead of...
251: Barack Obama
250: Ronald Reagan
242: Adolf Hitler
239: Leonardo da Vinci
234: Isaac Newton
233: Confucius
230: William Shakespeare
229: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela
225: Joe Biden
224: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
223: Muhammad
222: Aristotle, Basshunter (Swedish musician)
218: Johann Sebastian Bach
217: Plato
215: Julius Caesar
213: Napoleon
212: The Beatles (not bigger than Jesus), Corbin Bleu (American actor and singer), Alexander the Great
211: George W. Bush, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincent Van Gogh
210: Vladimir Lenin, Michelangelo
209: Christopher Columbus, Buddha
206: Augustus, Karl Marx
205: Charles Darwin, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Elizabeth II
204: Pablo Picasso
203: Abraham Lincoln, Galileo Galilei, Mahatma Gandhi
202: Joseph Stalin
201: Socrates
200: Salvador Dalí
I generated this list by hand, so it's possible I missed some, especially one-named people. Most of these seem legitimate, but I do wonder what David Woodard, Basshunter, and Corbin Bleu did.
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
> I wonder why A very active member of their community armed with a translator, very probably.
Apparently, the article for David Woodard, an American composer and conductor has been translated into 333 languages, including Seediq, a language spoken in Northern Taiwan by about 20 thousand people. 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
A lot of them seem to be stubs with only one line of content. Not very hard to translate "David James Woodard (born April 6, 1964) is an American conductor and writer" passably into 300-some languages.
Wikipedia is one of the pinnacles of human knowledge and achievement across all cultures and time and space, as much as people try to sue them and get content taken down the set of laws and protections it enjoys is a true moral and technological good. 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 i…
I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do. So I'll leave it up to you.