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   Brendan Halpin (bthalpin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 19:43:28 JST Brendan Halpin

   A comparison of interest in climate-change disasters, measured as Wikipedia editing interest:

   1: LA fires
   2: Valencia floods (death toll approx 1 order of magnitude higher)
   3: Derna dam collapse in Libya (death toll *at least* 1 order of magnitude higher than Valencia, perhaps 2).

   Two sorts of explanation here:
   1: Where WP editors are (e.g., many fewer in North Africa, probably lots in California)
   2: What WP editors think is interesting (the whole world is fascinated by Hollywood, LA, etc)

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 19:43:28 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @bthalpin 3. What sources find interesting. (Relentless media coverage of celebrity homes going up in smoke.)

     #Wikipedia #NPOV