[Wikisource-l] Wikistats seens to be inaccurate for Wikisources

[Luiz Augusto]

Hi Erik, I'm crossposting this message to the wikisource-l, if anyone is
interested to give some inputs.

The http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesDatabaseWords.htm seens
to be inaccurate. Apparently your tool compute only words in the main
namespace. It may works for projects like Wikipedia and theirs very long
talk pages at the namespace Project: on some subjects (such as deletion
requests). But it doens't work for Wikisource for two main reasons:

1) Some subdomains have custom namespaces for short biographies and list of
works by author (en, it, pt and others), some have it on the main namespace
(fr, de, es and others). This is a minor issue, since the amount of words on
those pages is small

2) Some Wikisources (de, fr and en, according to
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage_Statistics ) have large
amount of contents in a custom namespace devoted to the ProofreadPage
Extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page ). This
content is displayed on main namespace within page transclusion (see
http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=35_Sonnets&action=edit for an
example).

Is possible to include the custom namespaces for all Wikisources on your
automated calculation tool?

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