On 01/11/05, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote
There are 661 admins on en.wikipedia. Of these, 461 were active during the month of October, 2005. They deleted 60313 pages [...]
A striking number, i.e. 2000 per day. More than the amount of honest page creation.
How many are honestly created? Interesting question.
Special:Newpages stalls just shy of 55,000 (I think only counting article-space creations, but including redirects) and that's 12:42 on the 2nd of October, close enough to a full month. So we've a discrepancy of only a few thousand pages between "junk" and "viable"; the sixty thousand deletions a month means we're deleting about half of what turns up, and when you factor in recent large-scale image purges[1] we're probably letting more than half of the page creations through.
I'm surprised that high a fraction survives, in all honesty, having done new-pages patrol a few times before!
[1] Anyone know how many articles were killed last month, OOI?
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