Wow, that is a big difference. Almost 4 million.
I think that MediaWiki doesn't count pages without any [[link]]. Is that the reason?
2015-09-07 17:39 GMT+02:00 Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org:
Hi all,
The main page of Wikidata shows an item count that is getting increasingly out of synch with reality. The 31 Aug dump contains 18,483,096 items, while the front page says that there are 14,788,811 now. I think this is caused by how MediaWiki counts "articles" (which is not what we are dealing with).
Or maybe this is intended? But if we prominently publish a number that is 25% off the "raw" data, we should at least explain which criteria was used to produce it. What counts as a "proper" item on Wikidata?
Cheers,
Markus
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