[Wikipedia-l] common and lacking interwiki links

Tue Nov 28 16:19:58 UTC 2006

I have updated the list at [[meta:Common Interwiki links]], containing the
pages that, according to the English Wikipedia, have a link in many
languages, but not in a given language. In this update, all languages that
had at least 100 of the 200 most common subjects have been included; this
makes 81 languages, up from 53 in the previous version (about two months
ago).

Here the 20 most linked subjects. India is still most linked, and has in
fact increased its lead by several miles, now (according to the article on
en:) having an article in 234 Wikipedia languages.

1. (1) India 233 (+82)
2. (2) True Jesus Church 161 (+10)
3. (--) 2006 150 (+57)
4. (3) Wikipedia 142 (+7)
5. (6) Germany 136 (+10)
6. (4) Spain 132 (+3)
7. (5) Europe 129 (+2)
8. (11) France 128 (+11)
9. (7) Lithuania 128 (+3)
10. (9) Bible 127 (+6)
11. (8) United States 126 (+4)
12. (--) 2005 122 (+26)
13. (12) Russia 120 (+5)
14. (10) Kurów 118 (=)
15. (16) Christianity 116 (+8)
16. (15) Italy 115 (+6)
17. (14) English language 114 (+5)
18. (19) Astronomy 112 (+6)
19. (13) Geography 111 (+1)
20. (--) Africa 111 (+6)

Bubbling under: Biology, Norway, Poland

And because I love statistics and top lists, here again the top 100 persons
deemed most worthy of a Wikipedia article (according to the existence of
articles in various languages). Order where several had the same number
decided by me (note: this is the number of languages, and thus one higher
than what you see on the list, which shows the number of interwiki links)

1. (1) Jesus 110
2. (2) Albert Einstein 88
3. (4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 85
4. (3) George W. Bush 83
5. (6) Johan Sebastian Bach 83
6. (5) Adolf Hitler 83
7. (7) Pope Benedict XVI 79
8. (8) Ludwig von Beethoven 77
9. (10) Pope John Paul II 75
10. (11) Christopher Columbus 74
11. (9) Leonardo da Vinci 74
12. (13) Karl Marx 73
13. (12) Charles Darwin 72
14. (19) Vladimir Lenin 71
15. (14) Isaac Newton 71
16. (18) Aristotle 69
17. (16) Mahatma Gandhi 69
18. (15) Plato 67
19. (28) Kofi Annan 67
20. (17) William Shakespeare 67
21. (24) Galileo Galilei 66
22. (**) Che Guevara 66
23. (23) Jacques Chirac 66
24. (26) Vladimir Putin 65
25. (21) Muhammad 64
26. (20) J. R. R. Tolkien 64
27. (31) Alexander the Great 63
28. (49) Ferdinand Magellan 63
29. (25) Pythagoras 63
30. (38) Vincent van Gogh 63
31. (54) Marco Polo 63
32. (29) Tony Blair 63
33. (22) Fidel Castro 63
34. (44) Johann Wolfgang Goethe 62
35. (40) Angela Merkel 62
36. (34) Bill Gates 62
37. (51) Nelson Mandela 62
38. (37) Socrates 61
37. (36) Homer 61
38. (33) Joseph Stalin 61
39. (48) Sigmund Freud 61
40. (27) Sid Vicious 61
41. (35) Marie Curie 61
42. (55) Roald Amundsen 61
43. (39) Winston Churchill 61
44. (32) Julius Caesar 60
45. (30) Napoleon I of France 60
46. (47) Benito Mussolini 60
48. (52) Thomas Edison 60
49. (43) Archimedes 59
50. (41) Genghis Khan 59
51. (60) George Washington 59
52. (56) Immanuel Kant 59
53. (42) Yasser Arafat 59
54. (57) Pablo Picasso 59
55. (46) George Orwell 59
56. (45) Alfred Nobel 59
57. (61) Osama bin Laden 58
58. (50) Nicolaus Copernicus 58
59. (53) Bill Clinton 58
60. (59) Abraham Lincoln 58
61. (58) Linus Torvalds 58
62. (**) James Cook 57
63. (66) Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 57
64. (76) René Descartes 57
65. (64) Friedrich Nietzsche 56
66. (69) John F. Kennedy 56
67. (62) Alan Turing 56
68. (72) Dante Alighieri 55
69. (71) Gerhard Schröder 52
70. (67) Martin Luther 55
71. (--) Jacques Cartier 55
72. (70) Vasco da Gama 55
73. (65) Richard Wagner 55
74. (68) Richard Stallman 55
75. (63) Thomas Jefferson 55
76. (79) Carolus Linnaeus 54
77. (78) Fyodor Dostoevsky 54
78. (--) Francis Drake 54
79. (77) Ronald Reagan 54
80. (**) Charlemagne 53
81. (83) Ernest Hemingway 53
82. (80) Leon Trotsky 53
83. (--) Noam Chomsky 53
84. (89) Victor Hugo 53
85. (74) Elvis Presley 53
86. (85) John Lennon 53
87. (73) Johannes Gutenberg 53
88. (--) Hernán Cortés 52
89. (84) Joan of Arc 52
90. (--) Franklin D. Roosevelt 52
91. (87) Michelangelo 52
92. (--) Charles de Gaulle 52
93. (81) Albert Camus 52
94. (75) Leonhard Euler 52
95. (--) Isaac Asimov 52
96. (96) Johannes Kepler 52
97. (--) Mao Zedong 51
98. (--) Saddam Hussein 51
99. (--) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 51
100. (--) Indira Gandhi 51

Also 51: Otto von Bismarck, Jimmy Carter, Friedrich Engels, Edmund Hillary,
J. K. Rowling, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ariel Sharon, Harry S. Truman

**: These had been missed by me last time I composed this list. Che Guevara
would have been around position 20, James Cook around 71 and Charlemagne
around 74.

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