If it hadn't been accompanied by the stats on the increase in readable text at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution then yes it would have been a weak argument. With those stats you have two bits of data both supporting the same picture. Of course readable text is not the only way of judging these articles, it would be interesting to look at the proportion with pictures and meaningful categories.
Another way of looking at this is whether it is referenced or not, I think there is a case for arguing that a referenced single paragraph article is in some ways more complete than an unreferenced article of three times the length. WereSpielChequers On 4 December 2010 12:05, Peter Jacobi <[email protected]> wrote: > WereSpielChequers, All, > >> 1 The size of the database in gigabytes has been growing faster than >> the the number of articles > > This is a weak argument. The constant activity of interwiki bots alone will > add a huge amount of database storage space without increasing the real > length of the articles. > > Peter > [[User:Pjacobi]] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
