On 17/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/16/07, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_20071…
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.)