On 17/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/16/07, 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?
Rejoice for the the impossible super-intelligence of hindsight: If an article is *currently* a living person bio it *always was*.
The converse, however, is not true. [[Category:2007 deaths]] has over 2000 entries. [[Category:2006 deaths]] has over 3000 entries. Combined that only makes up for a quarter of a percent of all articles, but that's probably enough to put the drop at the end of the curve into question.
Very good point. This would be an interesting statistic: What %age of articles on recently deceased people were started before they died? Anyone with a suitable bot care to calculate it? (Go through the 200* deaths categories, parse the article for the date of death [shouldn't be too hard in most cases], compare with the history page, repeat.)