Piotr Konieczny, 22/06/2011 03:49:
Nicholas Moreau wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_without_diacrit…
> I think this category is actually a
list of redirect, from the
> diacritic-less spellings to the diacriticed actual articles. There's
> over 309 K redirects. Not sure though.
An interesting category, but seems occasionally misused (for example, in
(ISC)2 somebody confused superscript with a diacritic). This category,
however, indeed shows redirects from articles without a diacritic to
those with a diacritic ("The pages in this category are redirects to
articles whose titles have diacritical marks.") Thanks for the find!
The one that shows redirects for titles with a diacritic to one without
a diacritic would be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_titles_with_diacritics
("Category:Redirects from titles with diacritics")
This one has about 6,5k articles.
Thanks for the categories, as imperfect as they are they are nonetheless
quite useful to know about, and clearly show that Wikipedia does use
diacritics much more often than not.
There's plenty of redirects with diacritics, although some Wikipedia
editions have way more than others (you can just look at the
all-Wikipedias comparison table for the number of redirects on
stats.wikimedia.org to notice this); more interesting would be to
measure how often they're visited, collating data from the page view stats.
Nemo