On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
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Total number of articles: 2,893,595 Total number of articles on people: 673,918 (23.29% of all articles) Total number of featured biographies: 618 (0.09% of biographies) Total number of BLPs: 375,584 (55.73% of biographies) Total number of featured BLPs: unknown
Worked out an approximation for the latter figure using the CatScan tool:
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&am...
Intersection of Category:FA-Class biography articles and Template:Blp = 169 articles
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&am...
Intersection of Category:FA-Class biography articles and Category:Biography articles of living people = 168 articles.
I sorted them in Excel and the total is 169. There are 36 articles on music groups. Three "other" articles (a list, a criminal trial article, and a summary-style daughter article). The other 130 articles are on living individuals. I'll throw a list up on-wiki somewhere and link from here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carcharoth/Featured_BLPs
Carcharoth
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biography_articles_by_quality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:FA-Class_biography_articles