On 16/10/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_200710...
So what did you do for numbers before [[Category:Living people]] was created in late 2005?
See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_20071...
It looks like he took a current snapshot of the category and looked at their histories to find creation dates. That method misses any articles which have been deleted, but I don't think that's a serious issue (they were probably deleted for a good reason, so including them would artificially inflate past figures).