[Wikipedia-l] common and lacking interwiki links

Tue Nov 28 17:35:08 UTC 2006

And here the pages that, as far as I could see, got the most extra interwiki
links during these last two months. Only pages that had 1 or more interwiki
links last time have been included, though. Also, where I found that there
was a different page on that title 2 months ago, pages have been removed. A
remark on the cause of the growth has been given, where I could discern it.

1. India +82 to 233
2. 2006 +57 to 150
3. Informatics +41 to 42 (other languages used to link to [[computer
science]])
4. Musa (genus) +38 to 45 (got a load of links that are also linked from
[[banana]])
5. Persian Empire +31 to 35 (was in a vandalised state 2 months ago)
6. Octave Mirbeau +31 to 46 (someone seems to have translated a stub into
many languages)
7. Ban Ki-moon +30 to 35 (next secretary-general of the UN)
8. Frankfurt +30 to 53
9. Tortoise +28 to 39 (now linked to many languages that have a single
article for turtles and tortoises)
10. 2005 +28 to 122
11. Advertising +27 to 29
12. September +27 to 92
13. Muhammad Yunus +25 to 33 (won the Nobel Peace Prize)
14. Korn +25 to 49 (has a new album?)
15. Hesse +25 to 65
16. Adam's Rib +24 to 26 (incorrectly linked to Adam in several languages -
reverted)
17. Orhan Pamuk +24 to 47 (won the Nobel Prize for Literature)
18. Freedom of speech (international) +23 to 24 (linked to pages that are
also linked from Freedom of speech)
19. Tributary +23 to 24
20. Republic of China +23 to 65
21. Wakker Prize +22 to 25 (mistake: had included Category:Prizes rather
than been put in it)
22. Toxicity +22 to 30 (has been linked to pages on [[poison]] instead. I
think the old links were better)
23. Game Boy +21 to 22
24. Anna Politkovskaya +21 to 28 (was murdered)
25. Karlstad Municipality +21 to 31
26. Bhopal (state) +19 to 20
27. Olimpia +18 to 19 (disamb; now linked to disambiguation pages Olympia as
well as Olimpia)
28. Edmund Phelps +18 to 21 (Nobel Prize winner in economics)
29. Ségolène Royal +18 to 32 (French socialist presidential election
candidate)
30. Battle of the Frontiers +17 to 18 (incorrectly linked to Battle of
Jutland; reverted)
31. Geothermal heating +17 to 18 (linked to geothermal energy/power in many
languages)

A few more that got high because of the news:
Grameen Bank +17 to 22 (co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of
Kazakhstan +16 to 17 (film released internationally)
Borat +16 to 23 (lead figure of aformentioned film)
Nancy Pelosi +14 to 19 (stays Democratic leader in the House, now majority
leader)
Daniel Ortega +14 to 25 (winner Nicaragua presidential elections)
Surayud Cholanont +12 to 14 (new prime minister of Thailand)
September 2006 +12 to 16 (recent month)
Pieter Willem Botha +12 to 23 (died)
Robert Gates +11 to 12 (U.S. secretary of defense nominee)
October 2006 +11 to 13 (recent month)

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