On 28 October 2015 at 07:48, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics, clicking on
> "content pages" takes me to a list of pages that are included in "(Article)"
> namespace. But this includes redirects, which is surprising to me because
> the Special:Statistics page implies to me that redirects are included in
> "Pages (All pages in the wiki, including talk pages, redirects, etc.)" which
> is a separate link. So, is there a way to verify that what
> Special:Statistics is showing for "content pages" actually excludes the
> redirects that are shown in "(Article)" namespace?
There are ~12 million namespace 0 ("article") pages, so you can be
confident that this is a subset :-)
http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/5869
The definition of what gets counted by Special:Statistics is here -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Article_count - I believe from
memory we use the default (must have some text, at least one wikilink,
and not be a redirect), but please someone correct me if I'm wrong...
> disambiguation pages as "articles"? I suppose it makes sense to think of
> editing disambiguation pages as editing in content space, but I'm a little
> hesitant to count them as articles for the purposes of the 5,000,000
> milestone. Curious to hear what others think about whether disambiguation
> pages should be counted as articles for this purpose.
Whether they should be is an open question, but we've been counting
them in our standard definition for years, and if we remove them the
article count will drop back to 4.73 million overnight - a lot more
time to write the press release!
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- Andrew Gray
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