On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Rob <gamali...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's also the lack of interesting controversies to spur editors' > interest in the Chilean earthquake. With Haiti, you had Pat > Robertson's stupid comments, the alleged attempted kidnapping of > orphans, the invasion of Scientology, etc. Haiti's geographic > proximity also increased relative coverage. The US English language > media also largely ignores Latin America unless Hugo Chavez says > something to hurt our feelings. > > Of course these theories only apply to US-based editors. It would be > an interesting exercise to geographically map out IP addresses and see > where the interest and lack of interest is coming from.
Well, the en-wiki article is still rubbish. I had to write something today referring to this earthquake, and while the en-wiki article (and the sources to which it attributes the information it contains) was good enough for the limited information I needed, if I had wanted anything more detailed or indeed more informative and balanced, the Spanish Wikipedia article is still much, much better. Versions for comparison if anyone is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010_Chile_earthquake&oldid=351379618 http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terremoto_de_Chile_de_2010&oldid=35380486 On en-wiki, the tsunami stuff takes up about half the article and is mostly irrelevant to what should be the main focus of the article. on es-wiki, the tsunami is tightly constrained to a short subsection, with more details in a sub-article. On en-wiki, there is little on the regional impacts within Chile, while on es-wiki, there is a section with eight subsection detailing what happened in different areas of Chile. The es-wiki article also has a lot more pictures. Of course, there is a notice on the en-wiki article suggesting people update and rewrite using the es-wiki article, but that doesn't seem to be having any effect. I may eventually try and do something myself on this article, but it is rather disappointing the way the article stalled and just isn't going anywhere. 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
