Okay, I misunderstood those as page counts, which would be way too high. Even if they are explicit usage counts, I am still surprised they are that high.
BTW, is it surprising to anyone else that style elements aren't searchable by default? Searching for "efcfff" [1], gives only a single article result despite "background: #efcfff;" being reported 200k times. We can however search using "insource:efcfff" [2], which reports 5516 articles, implying this color is applied _on average_ roughly 39 times per article. "display: none;" would appear even more impressive, with a reported 140k uses in just 218 articles [3] or an average of 656 usages per page containing it. That doesn't feel very likely to me. One possibility would be if you mistakenly counted some or all pages outside of the main namespace. Though only 218 articles use "display: none", there are nearly 31000 other pages that include it [4], which seems like a much more reasonable way to get to 140k total uses. -Robert [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=efcfff&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=insource%3Aefcfff&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&profile=advanced [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=insource%3A%22style%3D%5C%22display%3A+none%3B%5C%22%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&profile=advanced [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=insource%3A%22style%3D%5C%22display%3A%20none%3B%5C%22%22&fulltext=Search&profile=all On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
