On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Stubs and how to handle them seem to be controversial still (or again), > which is rather surprising given that we have been going nearly a decade > now. I'd like to ask how many articles still are stubs, by some sensible > standard?
The following data is from the live toolserver database just now. This is not a very detailed standard for counting the number of stubs, but at least it's objective. There are 3,517,730 non-redirect pages in the main namespace. Of these, 3,144,982 are less then 10,000 bytes; 2,596,291 are less than 5,000 bytes; 1,422,480 are less than 2,000 bytes; 547,342 are less than 1,000 bytes; and 185,932 are less than 500 bytes. There are about 186,000 pages in [[Category:All disambiguation pages]], which are included in the above numbers. Redirects are *not* included. If we estimate 4.5 bytes per word plus another byte for a space, a 1,000 byte article would have 182 words (ignoring templates and categories), and a 5,000 byte article would have about 910 words. I think it's safe to say that the majority of our articles are "short" and a significant minority are "very short". - Carl _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
