On 10/17/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The recent drop (as opposed to the slowing of the graph) is, I would argue, just an indicator of the fact that marking as a living/nonliving person is often done by someone other than the original author (it's an easy thing to forget), so new articles can take some time to be incorporated into the category.
It's quite possibly true... I guess we'll know when I regenerate the graphs in a couple of months.
I trimmed off the most recent data under the theory that it might not be valid, but the length of my trim was just a guess based on the fact that in other more easily measured processes (image tagging, article deletion, etc) show very strong front-loading that settles within a week or so.