[dpfu]

There is also the HoHo building („Holzhochhaus“, lit. wood high house) in Vienna, which is a wooden high-rise with 24 stories and 84 m [0]. They just added an antenna to the Mjøsa Tower to break the record. (Boys and their towers…)

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HoHo_Wien

[dmurray]

A thousand words of German, including a section on its impact on the skyline, but the only image is the HoHo logo? I know I could edit it myself, but this just seems strange for any notable building.

[ken]

This is very common for German Wikipedia.

Once I had the idea for a project (never completed) to analyze the differences in pictures accompanying articles across Wikipedia's languages. The results were about what you might expect. For their respective articles on "Food", you'll find:

- English: a photograph of vegetables, meat, bread, beans, and milk

- Japanese: a room full of tuna at a large fish market, white rice, and water

- Russian: potatoes, onions, spices

- Italian: a 17th century painting of some food

- Esperanto: the cover of an Esperanto book about food

- German: bar charts tracking food prices (and no pictures of any actual food)

It's interesting how Wikipedia makes it easy to jump between languages, yet each language's maintains its own identity and conventions. I've heard people propose to just start copying photographs from English Wikipedia into others (which tend to have far fewer pictures), and editors for those languages asking people to please stop.

[lainga]

The same applies to Wiktionaries - compared to English, the French Wiktionary is elegantly and spaciously structured, the German version telegraphic and dense on information.

[dmurray]

That's pretty interesting. The English approach (or the Japanese, or Russian) seems objectively better to me. I guess for something like "food" it can lead to a mild case of cultural imperialism, but having a picture of the thing is generally better than not having a picture, and AFAIK Wikipedia explicitly makes it easy to share media between the different language wikis.

[gberger]

You'd need to provide an image with a copyright status appropriate for Wikipedia, which might not be trivial in some cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images

[tom_mellior]

According to that article, HoHo is only 75 percent wood and has a concrete core for the elevators. Still, pretty good.

Wikipedia has a list of tallest wooden buildings, very few of which are actually complete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_wooden_buildin...

I recently read about the one in Tokyo which is supposed to be 350 meters tall for a forestry company's 350-year (!) anniversary. The article claims it will be 90% wood, 10% steel: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tokyo-plans-to-build-1-150-foot...

[latch]

According to the original article, Mjøsa Tower also makes use of concrete, though a % isn't given.

[angry_octet]

But not for structural support, it is to provide mass damping. They could have used lead weights instead.