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?
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