On 10/19/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
So, if we look for all articles matching something like ["Category:19xx births" NOT "Category:xxxx deaths"], translate that into SQL, see what you get.
It's a fairly expensive query to run (ever so much more than just matching a single category) ... but I ran it frequently in the past to help people populate the living people category.
On 19/10/2007, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
It must be a significant underestimate, since any article about a living person, which is not explicitly labelled [[Category:Living people]] isn't counted.
Sure it's a lower bound, but I would be shocked if the coverage were that bad. Manually checking with random page indicates the numbers are about right, and certantly not your 90%. :)