Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
Recently Wikidata celebrated its third birthday. For the occasion I ran the map generation script that I have talked about before again to see what had changed in the geo coordinate landscape of Wikidata!
I found, well, Mexico blossomed!
The image to the left is from June 2015, the right October 2015 and Wikimania was in July 2015!
I will be keeping an eye out for what happens on the map around Esino Lario in 2016 to see what impact the event has on Wikidata again.
Full maps
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Map_October_2015_Small.png
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Map_October_2015_Normal.png
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Map_October_2015_Big.png
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Map_October_2015_Huge.png
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Map_October_2015_Enormous.png
Nice! What is happening around Irawadi or rather Ayeyarwady and Rakhaing? Why is it so densely mapped? There is no clue from OpenStreetMap.
Yep, I spotted this one too!
You can see the comparison image that I made at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Burma_June_vs_October_2015_on_Wikidata_map.png
I have no idea why there was such an influx in item creation in the region though!
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