[WikiEN-l] Putting some perspective on the end of Wikipedia

[FT2]

Sorry, no.

A quick look at the protection log shows many more protections of articles
as well as other pages; listing in the protected pages categories almost
seems an exception when these are clicked on.

As well a wide range of pages are "salted" - deleted then protected to
prevent recreation. Those don't appear in categories either.

It looks like you'd need to do a check on actual status of mainspace pages
via the toolserver to get accurate statistics.

FT2



On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Joseph Reagle <reagle at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> One of the best responses to some of the hyperbole out there about the
> closing, failure, end of WP is the figure of how many articles are actually
> locked down in any way, however, this is a difficult figure to
> authoritatively find/claim. There's Main and Featured [1] of course, about
> 11 protected articles [2], and then 785 semi-protected [3].
>
> So are those the right numbers? If so can we claim about .0026% of pages
> are protected from editing by "anyone" and .00004% of pages are protected
> from Wikipedians (i.e., you've signed up for an account and haven't done
> anything stupid for a few days.)
>
> How many pages (BPL + ?) are likely to fall under Flagged Protection?
>
> [1]:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_indefinitely_protected_pages
> [2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_protected_pages
> [3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_pages
>
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