2009/2/16 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>:

> 30% by articles, maybe, but they were stubs weren't they, so it won't
> be 30% by words. (That may explain why their articles are longer on
> average.) Incidentally, I don't think Rambot articles were that
> significant - if you look at the graphs, rate of growth didn't
> increase when they were added as one would expect is rate of growth
> were simply proportional to size (which it what gives exponential
> growth) which suggests rate of growth was actually proportional to the
> number of non-Rambot articles.


I remember them being a PITA at the time (early 2004). 200k articles
with 30k Rambot articles meant [[Special:Random]] turned up Rambot
articles entirely too often for my liking. I'm glad that (a) they're
now vastly outnumbered (b) almost all have been significantly
rewritten.


- d.

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