On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
Which look in turn like they are from the CIA World Fact Book, or something similar. 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
