Which countries Wikipedia is writing about today
Counting edits to articles about places, by the country the place is in.
Busiest places there today
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The last four weeks
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How the count is made
An edit lands here when the article it changed carries coordinates that fall inside this country's outline. Outlines come from Natural Earth at about a kilometre of resolution, matched offline against every edit as it arrives — no geocoding service is asked, and no border dispute is adjudicated. A point just offshore belongs to no country rather than to a guessed one.
Only articles with coordinates can be placed at all, which is roughly a fifth of Wikipedia. Articles about people, ideas and events have no location and are counted in the totals instead. So this is a count of writing about places in this country, not of writing about the country.
The same figures are machine-readable at places.json, under CC0. See also yesterday counted in full and how accurate Wikipedia is.
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Counted since midnight UTC, so early in the day the list is short. Only edits to articles carrying coordinates can be placed in a country — about a fifth of Wikipedia. Articles about people, ideas and events have no location and are counted in the totals instead.
How a country is decided
Every article with coordinates is matched against Natural Earth's country outlines, offline and at about a kilometre of resolution. A point just offshore belongs to no country rather than to a guessed one, and the outlines carry no opinion about disputed borders — where the data is ambiguous, the honest answer is nothing.
The same counts are machine-readable at
places.json, and one country at a
time at places.json?country=Germany, under
CC0.