On 10/16/07, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/16/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_200710...
Discuss amongst yourselves.
So to make sure I understand properly, this is saying that currently, roughly 11% of all articles in the English Wikipedia are biographies of living people?
If so, yikes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mostlinkedcategories
Several of the largest categories are devoted to people, which immediately makes clear they are a large fraction of all articles.
"Category:Biography articles without listas parameter" has 300,000 members, so presumably there are at least 80,000 articles about people not currently presumed to be living.
Or put another way, we have slightly more than 2 biographies of living people for every 3 non-free images.
Oh wait, there is also a "Category:Biography articles with listas parameter" with 140,000 members. If the with/without "listas" are assumed to be a complete set then there are 445,000 biography articles, which would give roughly equal numbers of living and dead biographies. So ~22% of Wikipedia is biographies.