Short answer is yes - all pages are pages, whether redirects or disambigs.
Some redirects are created as such, but many were created as articles that
got merged for one of two reasons - 1) the article already existed under a
different spelling ; 2) the article was considered not encyclopedic enough
for its own article and was merged into some parent article. In both cases
there was a lot of time and effort in there that can still be seen in the
page history. Disambigs idem ditto. On Wikidata there were some discussions
about including redirects, disambigs and list articles as items and the
conclusion was no items for redirects, but there are items for disambigs
and lists. Many are still unlabelled as such however.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When I go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics, clicking
on "content pages" takes me to a list of pages that are included in
"(Article)" namespace. But this includes redirects, which is surprising to
me because the Special:Statistics page implies to me that redirects are
included in "Pages (All pages in the wiki, including talk pages, redirects,
etc.)" which is a separate link. So, is there a way to verify that what
Special:Statistics is showing for "content pages" actually excludes the
redirects that are shown in "(Article)" namespace?
I also have a question about disambiguation pages. When I go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages, select "(Article)", and
select "hide redirects", disambiguation pages like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!!,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_(disambiguation),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teel and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons are all still appearing in that
list of pages. Should we be counting disambiguation pages as "articles"? I
suppose it makes sense to think of editing disambiguation pages as editing
in content space, but I'm a little hesitant to count them as articles for
the purposes of the 5,000,000 milestone. Curious to hear what others think
about whether disambiguation pages should be counted as articles for this
purpose.
Thanks,
Pine
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