2009/2/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
30% by articles, maybe, but they were stubs weren't they, so it won't be 30% by words. (That may explain why their articles are longer on average.) Incidentally, I don't think Rambot articles were that significant - if you look at the graphs, rate of growth didn't increase when they were added as one would expect is rate of growth were simply proportional to size (which it what gives exponential growth) which suggests rate of growth was actually proportional to the number of non-Rambot articles.
I remember them being a PITA at the time (early 2004). 200k articles with 30k Rambot articles meant [[Special:Random]] turned up Rambot articles entirely too often for my liking. I'm glad that (a) they're now vastly outnumbered (b) almost all have been significantly rewritten.
- d.