2014-07-14 17:38 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>:
> > Yes, we are basically discussing (at least) two topics here, one is to get > the "most" important cities on a world scale (likely doable manually), and > the other is to get a good approximation for every place (i.e. thousands or > millions of small ones, with relative importance for everyone, likely to be > done automatically or semi-automatically with help of good algorithms). Of > course even if you try to be "objective" you will never be, and the > perception of what is important does vary a lot based on your own cultural > background, e.g. "Mecca" is not on one of the linked Cities lists of > wikipedia, but hundreds of millions of people would probably want it > there... > The thing is, what you need is relative importance of nearby cities. Nearby cities are not so much subject to cultural background bias, because they are usually from similar cultures. Here's a list of some cities and wikipedias (number of wikipedia articles in different languages about a city). I think it looks pretty good. New York - 192 (more than nearby Washington even though Washington is capital) Tokyo - 192 São Paulo - 188 (more than nearby Rio de Janeiro) Washington - 182 Wien - 176 (more than nearby Bratislava) Rio de Janeiro - 156 Bratislava - 153 Baghdad - 152 Zagreb - 142 (more than nearby Ljubljana) Mecca - 138 (more than nearby Jeddah, even though it has less then half the population) Ljubljana - 130 Montevideo - 125 Ulan Bator - 121 Bamako - 113 Jeddah - 106 Perth - 95 Casablanca - 93
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