Toby Bartels wrote:
Gareth Owen wrote:
The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> wrote:
How do they clutter the "worthwhile"
entries? Wikipedia is not paper.
RandomPages
An idea:
Can Randompage weight the articles that it picks by their length?
This will make *any* stub less likely to be chosen,
arguably without giving a distorted picture of what Wikipedia is like.
The Ram-bot city entries average somewhere around 2130 bytes each
(standard deviation 113), which is *larger* than the English
Wikipedia-wide average for article-space non-redirect pages (about 1900
bytes, standard deviation a whopping 3028).
As I recall, the median article size is smaller than the average; if you
could cut out the Ram-bot cities by size, you'd cut out most of the rest
of Wikipedia with them.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)