On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew Garrett schrieb: >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM, O. O. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Andrew Garrett wrote: >>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:26 AM, O. O. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> The above link says that “only articles” and no redirects are in >>>>> the >>>>> namespace NS0. Also Talk: pages are not included in the NS0. >>>>> Then, when the current English Wikipedia advertises 2,791,033 Articles, >>>>> I cannot understand why the list of Titles contains 5716820 Titles? This >>>>> is a little more than double? >>>> The larger number includes redirects, the smaller number doesn't. >>>> >>> Then why does this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NS0 say that >>> “Redirects” are not considered as Articles and hence are not in NS0? >> >> It doesn't say that, it says "Not all pages in the article namespace >> are considered to be articles", listing redirects as an example. > > The terminology is indeed confusing. ns0 is the "main" namespace, which is > used > for "articles". But it also contains redirects. For the statistics, the > software > tries to count "real" or "good" articles, which is defined to be in ns0, not a > redirect, and containing at least one link. It may in the future even be > redefined not to include disambiguation pages. The title list however contains > all pages in ns0. > > Talk pages are in their own namesapace, or rather, namespaces. Namespaces come > in pairs: the namespace itself (even id), and the corresponding talk namespace > (odd id).
plotting number of articles could help a observer "see" the grown of a wiki, but is a bad number to see the "dead" of a wiki. but.. he!.. maybe all wikis on the mediawiki proyect are just growing, so we don't have this phenomenon just now, maybe in a few years we will see some "wastelands wikis". Immense amounts of text that no one can maintain (are interested in maintain) and let on his own suffer a continuous degradation. Anyway all our wikis are on his infancy, and I am thinking 5+ years forward, and there are lots and lots of urgent problems just now. please ignore this email -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
