{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "coverage",
 "type": "story",
 "names": {
  "name": "Who gets written about",
  "said": "Counted in Wikipedia language editions, per tradition"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "now"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Every tradition on this site that has a Wikipedia article, ranked by how many languages wrote one.",
  "story": "The measurement is crude and that is the point: it is a count of attention, not of importance. Each tradition here names its article, and the harvest asks the Wikimedia API how many language editions carry it.\n\n*Inference —* the shape of the answer is predictable before you run it, which is itself the finding. The traditions with the most editions are the ones eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European voyages met first and wrote up in European languages; the ones with the fewest are inland, upland, and were written about, if at all, in an administrative report.\n\nThe Lanna leg tattoo does not appear at all. Not thinly — it has no article in any language, in a project with more than three hundred language editions, for a custom that covered the legs of every man in a kingdom.",
  "notes": "Counted at build time. A tradition with no named article is listed as having none rather than scored as zero."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ทุกธรรมเนียมบนเว็บนี้ที่มีบทความวิกิพีเดีย เรียงตามจำนวนภาษาที่เขียนถึง"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "cook-1769",
   "as": "Why the English-language record is shaped this way.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "sak-kha-lai",
   "as": "The tradition with no article at all.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:langlinks"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "harvested"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "measured"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "cook-1769",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "How the word got in",
   "as": "And what it did to the record."
  }
 ]
}