Wikipedia's Most Common Word in the History of Nations? War!

[HRIP7]

The Atlantic Cities: Wikipedia's Most Common Word in the History of Nations? Definitely 'War'

Let's play a game: can you guess the most frequently occurring descriptive word (excluding "the," "a," and variants of the name itself) in a country's "History of" Wikipedia page?

--The U.S.?
--"War"

--France?
--"War"

--Japan?
--"War"

--Mongolia?
--"Khaan"

[Cedric]

But of course. Wikipedia itself is essentially a war game.

[EricBarbour]

But of course. Wikipedia itself is essentially a war game.

Not just that--a large number of early insiders are extremely fond of military history and military hardware, making for a huge bias in that direction.
Wikiproject Military History is still one of the top projects in terms of activity -- currently assessing 126,000 articles.
By comparison, Wikiproject History (meaning all history, I presume) only has 19,000 articles.

[thekohser]

Intellectually amusing for a few minutes. Kind of like Wikipedia.

[culeaker]

It seems to me that war is an extremely important event in the history of most nations. I see nothing odd in war getting more coverage than say international baseball competitions.

[Anroth]

You are overthinking it. Its nothing to do with how 'important' conflict is. (Although it is given its effect on population, technology, social & economic growth etc).

Wikipedia is written pre-dominantly by late teen to 40 year old men.

They like action & guns, history is full of such, so war will be the natural starting point. Sports will be next, as its basically 'war-without-weapons'. Except for ice hockey. Go Devils!