On 10/17/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Do we even have any evidence that Rambot in fact did affect the growth of biographies.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_200710.svg
And there's the answer. No. Rambot didn't affect the growth of biographies much at all. There's a spike in early 2002 (can someone check out what that is?), but the graph of biographies is basically unaffected by rambot (late 2002, right?).
A non-exponential graph focusing on the months right around the rambot push would make this more clear. Are the raw numbers available somewhere?