[WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs

[Andrew Turvey]

Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :) 

I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an underestimate. 

I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage". 

----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew 
> Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a significant proportion of all articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if you do it for all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of cases" 
> 
> <snip> 
> 
> Off the top of your head? :-) 
> 
> I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like 
> somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical 
> articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP 
> figure is easily calculated though. 
> 
> 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people 
> 
> 400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009) 
> 
> 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 
> 
> 3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009) 
> 
> Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%. 
> 
> Carcharoth 
> 
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