On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 15:22, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Andrew Smith wrote:
You may want to have a look at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_count_reform which is, I think, the most recent major discussion of what constitutes an 'article'. The link on that page to Article Count Reform Vote shows the options suggested and voted for.
What was decided:
- all articles in talk space containing at least one wiki link shall be
considered "articles" for purposes of the front-page article count.
I haven't had a chance to make the change yet, but I'll probably go ahead and do it when I figure out why the counter is currently broken. :)
By the way, while that rule makes sense in general for the international wikis, it's a worse one than the current one for English language, and will cause yet another unfortunate hiccup in our statistical history. I hope that even if we change the "official" formulat, we'll continue to keep track of the comma numbers so as to give a statistically useful history.