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(a)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(a)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
[
2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_protected_pages
[
3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_pages
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