[WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

[WereSpielChequers]

If it hadn't been accompanied by the stats on the increase in readable
text at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution
then yes it would have been a weak argument.  With those stats you
have two bits of data both supporting the same picture. Of course
readable text is not the only way of judging these articles, it would
be interesting to look at the proportion with pictures and meaningful
categories.

Another way of looking at this is whether it is referenced or not, I
think there is a case for arguing that a referenced single paragraph
article is in some ways more complete than an unreferenced article of
three times the length.

WereSpielChequers

On 4 December 2010 12:05, Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi at gmx.net> wrote:
> WereSpielChequers, All,
>
>> 1 The size of the database in gigabytes has been growing faster than
>> the the number of articles
>
> This is a weak argument. The constant activity of interwiki bots alone will add a huge amount of database storage space without increasing the real length of the articles.
>
> Peter
> [[User:Pjacobi]]