Robert Rohde wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:13 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
>>The following are the top ten instances of inline styling from main
>>namespace pages on the English Wikipedia, as of about 2015-10-02:
>>
>>1552197 text-align: center;
>>499756  text-align: left;
>>355952  background: #dfffdf;
>>235222  background: #cfcfff;
>>215038  background: #efcfff;
>>210702  text-align: right;
>>143095  display: none;
>>93646   background: #efefef;
>>86391   font-size: 90%;
>>80420   background: #fff;
>
>I'm not sure what your bug is, but those counts are way too high to be
>accurate reflections of the wikitext in the main namespace on enwiki.

Err, based on what? :-)

These numbers are instances of style="[...]", not page counts. Looking at
a specific example from <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P2230>:

1164   font-family: 'microsoft yi baiti', 'noto sans yi', nsimsun-18030,
       simsun-18030, 'sil yi', code2000;

These 1,164 inline styling instances all come from a single article:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=672244691&action=edit>.

Maybe that's the confusion? I tried to make my descriptions as clear as
possible and I'm not saying a major bug is impossible, of course, but I
don't have any reason so far to doubt the data I collected.

Another strange case is "background-color: {{/meta/color}};", which had
16,432 instances. This almost looks like it would try to transclude a
subpage of the article, but due to subpages being disabled in the main
namespace on the English Wikipedia, it's actually transcluding a template
named "/meta/color": <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:/meta/color>.

I did concurrently look at the approximate number of non-redirect pages
that contain inline styling. My findings were that about 408,777
non-redirect pages contain some kind of inline styling on the English
Wikipedia (cf. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115228#1752223>).

MZMcBride



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