[HN Gopher] Notable items missing from English Wikipedia ___________________________________________________________________ Notable items missing from English Wikipedia Author : AndrewDucker Score : 45 points Date : 2022-04-16 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.plover.com) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.plover.com) | aaron695 wrote: | braingenious wrote: | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_down_ass_up | | This disambiguation has two entries, neither of which is the very | popular song by 2 Live Crew | YuccaGloriosa wrote: | severine wrote: | Wow, didn't expect such a "high quality listicle" when I clicked | to see if it was worth the upvote and/or the front page. | | Bye, I'm going down the rabbit hole for the next... minutes? | | Starting here btw https://www.hfctrust.org/who-we-support/ | mtmail wrote: | HN is full of interesting | https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org | submissions that never make the frontpage. | changoplatanero wrote: | i wonder if there is a way to find what are the most popular wiki | articles in non english wikipedia that are missing a page in | english? | SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: | A rough but easy to glance at heuristic would be to take the | top 100 entries from each non English language Wikipedia and | run them through Google translate before searching. Immediate | thoughts if that isn't effective are to increase the search | range to 1000 and throw away anything that isn't a proper noun. | smegsicle wrote: | wikipedia has links for 'this page in other languages', so just | looking for popular pages that are missing an english entry | should be a pretty good collection of those | | of course you'd probably find a few which are simply missing | the appropriate reference, and it would miss out on pages which | have an inaccurate language reference to english, as iirc i've | seen a few which i would call a bit too broad | iamacyborg wrote: | Case in point, the English speaking world does not know about | this beauty | | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russe_(p%C3%A2tisserie) | mtmail wrote: | I worked with both wikipedia pageview data and link data | (between articles and between wikimedia projects). Both | datasets are open, and huge of course, so technically possible. | https://wikimedia.bringyour.com/ | kingcharles wrote: | Publications International v. Meredith Corp is a very important | copyright case in the USA. It definitely should have a good | article. | | I hadn't heard of the Knox case, it sounds bizarre. I will have | to read it now. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-16 23:00 UTC)