On 16/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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_2007…
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).