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We all know that Wikipedia is an immense project. It is an incredibly impressive coming-together of human labour on a scale that the world rarely sees. Over the last few years, we've also seen a few maps of the encyclopedia (including my own) which have shown that the project is far from complete (whatever that might mean). 

 

That doesn't mean we should stop mapping the project though, and as part of our efforts to answer the first of our research questions looking at Wikipedia in the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa, I'll present these global-scale maps of every article in the November 2011 versions of the Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Persian, and Swahili Wikipedias. 

 

First, the English project. This encyclopedia is by far the largest, and currently hosts almost 700,000 geotagged articles (click on the image for a larger and more detailed version):

 via: zerogeography.net/

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