Try this instead to refute the "Wikipedia is dying" argument. Wikipedia's featured picture program started in May 2004. It took until 30 December 2007 to reach 1000 featured pictures. We're on track to reach number 2000 within a week: currently at 1973 FPs with 63 active nominations.
It would be interesting if someone wrote a tool to check article citations. Footnoting has been getting more and more commonplace, as well as more extensive.
-Durova
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:02 AM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Passed on to WP:AN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Protect...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Protection_template_issue
FT2
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:36 PM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, found out why.
You need to account for [[Category:Wikipedia pages protected due to dispute]] and other protection categories, as well. Pages such as
"Russell's
teapot" and "Developed country" are in there, protected, but not tagged.
The root cause seems to be that the category isn't itself a subcategory
of
some "protected pages" category. Specifically, there are protection templates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Protection_templates such as "Pp-dispute" that don't also include the page in one of the main "protected pages" categories you name.
FT2
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, no.
A quick look at the protection log shows many more protections of
articles
as well as other pages; listing in the protected pages categories almost seems an exception when these are clicked on.
As well a wide range of pages are "salted" - deleted then protected to prevent recreation. Those don't appear in categories either.
It looks like you'd need to do a check on actual status of mainspace
pages
via the toolserver to get accurate statistics.
FT2
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Joseph Reagle reagle@mit.edu wrote:
One of the best responses to some of the hyperbole out there about the closing, failure, end of WP is the figure of how many articles are
actually
locked down in any way, however, this is a difficult figure to authoritatively find/claim. There's Main and Featured [1] of course,
about
11 protected articles [2], and then 785 semi-protected [3].
So are those the right numbers? If so can we claim about .0026% of
pages
are protected from editing by "anyone" and .00004% of pages are
protected
from Wikipedians (i.e., you've signed up for an account and haven't
done
anything stupid for a few days.)
How many pages (BPL + ?) are likely to fall under Flagged Protection?
[1]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_indefinitely_protected_pages
[3]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_pages
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