episodeWho gets written about
Counted in Wikipedia language editions, per tradition
What it is
Every tradition on this site that has a Wikipedia article, ranked by how many languages wrote one.
The long version
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.
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.
The 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.
Connected to
- How the word got in Why the English-language record is shaped this way.
- Sak kha lai The tradition with no article at all.
Named here by
- How the word got in And what it did to the record.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | harvested | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Wikipedia language links, counted per article — Wikimedia API
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there