# What is so special about about Kurów, Poland?

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**Created:** [April 18, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-special-about-about-kurow-poland/752559 "2016-04-18T15:10:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-special-about-about-kurow-poland/752559/1 "2016-04-18T15:10:51Z")

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I was about to ask the following question in GQ:

\*What is the subject/article on Wikipedia with the largest number of language versions?  
\*  
Turns out there already is a [definitive answer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_records#Languages) to this:

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> Languages
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> Article in largest number of languages (apart from Main Page):  
> excluding test wikis: Russia in 276 languages  
> including test wikis: Kurów in 345 languages (See Stats)

Question: What is so special about [Kurów, Poland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w) (pop. 2,817)? There are hundreds of thousands of important and popular subjects, events in world history, historical figures, celebrities, countries, capitals etc., yet a village in Poland garners so much interest. Kurów is by no means insignificant, but why is it considered this important?

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**Author:** ![Cmdroverbite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Cmdroverbite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmdroverbite)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-special-about-about-kurow-poland/752559/2 "2016-04-18T15:25:02Z")

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Check the article’s talk page, it appears that there’s basically one guy asking people at various wikipedias to write an article about his hometown.

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**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-special-about-about-kurow-poland/752559/3 "2016-04-18T16:24:08Z")

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Indeed!

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> Interwiki
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> Looks like Kurow is the most popular place in Poland, according to the Wiki. Ksenon 01:32, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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> Pietras1988 has apparently been visitng all the foreign-language Wikis on IRC and begging them to create articles for this place. I saw him dash through the Latin-Wiki's channel, at least. Rather bizarre; why the rush to make foreign-language pages for this place, specifically, when so many foreign wikis don't even have pages for all the continents yet? There are hundreds of more glaring deficiencies in the Interwiki pages than stuff like this... I don't get it. -Silence 22:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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> **Yes, this article is on 103 languages already but in Poland is popular because I live in Kurów and K. is important because is famous e.g. thx by Jaruzelski. Pietras1988 TALK 20:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)**
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> I thought it would be manufactured. Skinnyweed 14:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
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> "in Poland is popular because I live in Kurów" - LOL! :D 83.28.108.152 10:28, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
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Kurów is important because he/she lives there! 🙂