Started by moth (@moth_hours) ·
the second-biggest Wikipedia is in Cebuano, and a bot wrote most of it
6 sources · 33 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Why is Cebuano Wikipedia so big?
- Ended at
- Scots language
The Trail
- “why is cebuano wikipedia so big” (google.com)
- Cebuano Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Lsjbot (en.wikipedia.org)
template-based stubs, mostly species and places
- Swedish Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Scots Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
the other strange one
- Scots language (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Cebuano Wikipedia has over 6 million articles, nearly all created by programs, mostly Lsjbot, with only a few hundred active users. Only about 11% of its views come from the Philippines. Scots Wikipedia had the opposite problem: in 2020 people discovered tens of thousands of its articles were written by one editor who didn't actually speak Scots.
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