On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/4/22 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>: >>> So it looks like all that low-hanging fruit went by 2002, with the >>> outliers by 2004. >> >> Some of those outliers aren't universally recognised countries. >> Transnistria, South Ossetia, etc. Some are regions of other countries >> with varying levels of autonomy. Udmurtia, Mordovia, etc. The most >> recently created article which is about something I recognise as a >> widely recognised country (I have never committed the list of >> countries to memory, so I may have missed one!) is Kenya, created in >> February 2003. > > And, looking at Kenya's early article history it is clear that the > current article was a rewrite of a previously existing article, which > I can't find any trace of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenya&oldid=700553 Look at the "main article" links there. It seems the early articles were "history of" and "geography of": http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Kenya&oldid=262268 (11 May 2001) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geography_of_Kenya&oldid=262269 (11 May 2001) etc. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
