https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33253

--- Comment #15 from Donald Lancon <[email protected]> 2012-05-11 07:44:41 UTC ---
That is a very helpful file! Thanks.

Actually, from what I've seen, the vast majority of ne.wiktionary entries do
have categories. Same for uk.wikisource. Are you sure those would count as
"links"? I don't remember...

In fact, based on a census of Special:AllPages (main namespace, hiding
redirects) and a sample of 30 "Special:Random" pages (in main ns) checked for
the presence of at least one link (assuming Category: links count) on each
wiki:

* ne.wiktionary = 28/30 * 4,937 = 4,608 estimated article count
* uk.wikisource = 28/30 * 4,757 = 4,440 estimated article count

(Both wikis count only the main namespace as "content".)

Those estimates are really close to the respective counts before the update
script was run: 4,821 and 4,563.

So... does this mean Category: links _used_ to count as links but don't
anymore?

If so, this is going to affect a great many wikis. (And already has: 13
Wikisources and 24 Wiktionaries dropped below their latest significant article
count milestone [in the sense of those tracked at m:Wikimedia_News] in the last
24 hours -- typically only a few wikis fall below milestones every _month_,
across _all_ WMF projects.)

So, does anyone know if this has been discussed on-wiki anywhere, or on a
mailing list?

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