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.<p>It saddens me that we will probably see the end of wikipedia soon.<p>The Wikimedia Foundation has been fined multiple times by Russian courts for example, it's just not in Russia's jurisdiction.<p>I expect the slow ramp of anti wikipedia rhetoric, which will all be plausible to the credulous, until public sentiment is swayed enough to strip their protections.<p>Now that college students are using completely unsourced, uninspectable chatgpt to write papers even that cohort won't protest.<p>And then instead of having a messy but checkable and certainly criticizable open repository of all human knowledge we will have opaque bs producers that are impossible to criticize because it will show eqch person what they want to see with no room for open debate or discussion and humanity will lose any attempt at curating shared, open touchstones of truth and fact.
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.<p>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?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Woodard" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Woodard</a>
The article on pagination <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination</a> has only been translated 11 times unfortunately. If it had been higher on the list it might have given the creator of the website some good ideas.
David Woodard's got some hardcore fans or what?<p>edit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1ce1f74/why_does_david_woodard_have_the_most_translated/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1ce1f74/why_does...</a>
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.<p>Fascinating post.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iprage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iprage</a>
Definitely working off an incomplete data set from wikidata.<p>According to the wikidata, there are no articles for the United States in whatever languages VEP, GUR, and UR are, but:<p><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikan_%C3%9Chtenzoittud_Valdkundad" rel="nofollow">https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikan_%C3%9Chtenzoittud_Va...</a><p><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%DB%81_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7" rel="nofollow">https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA...</a><p><a href="https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America" rel="nofollow">https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America</a><p>Ended up being fairly easy to look for - I compared the David Woodard list to the United States list and found instances where it claimed there was an article for the former but not the latter. Most David Woodard articles have a link to where he was born (United States), so an easy crosscheck.<p>Though VE seems to be an outlier where there is a Woodward but not United States article:
<a href="https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard" rel="nofollow">https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard</a>
Here is an interesting list of the most famous humans, where fame is measured by how many languages they have a Wikipedia article in.<p>333: David Woodard<p>275: Michael Jackson<p>274: Jesus<p>252: Donald Trump, who is very happy he's ahead of...<p>251: Barack Obama<p>250: Ronald Reagan<p>242: Adolf Hitler<p>239: Leonardo da Vinci<p>234: Isaac Newton<p>233: Confucius<p>230: William Shakespeare<p>229: Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela<p>225: Joe Biden<p>224: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<p>223: Muhammad<p>222: Aristotle, Basshunter (Swedish musician)<p>218: Johann Sebastian Bach<p>217: Plato<p>215: Julius Caesar<p>213: Napoleon<p>212: The Beatles (not bigger than Jesus), Corbin Bleu (American actor and singer), Alexander the Great<p>211: George W. Bush, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincent Van
Gogh<p>210: Vladimir Lenin, Michelangelo<p>209: Christopher Columbus, Buddha<p>206: Augustus, Karl Marx<p>205: Charles Darwin, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Elizabeth II<p>204: Pablo Picasso<p>203: Abraham Lincoln, Galileo Galilei, Mahatma Gandhi<p>202: Joseph Stalin<p>201: Socrates<p>200: Salvador Dalí<p>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.