On 8/29/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
It's just a glimpse, of course, and doesn't take into account relative article size, but it doesn't look like Wikipedia is being "swamped" with fan writing. It would be interesting to see a more rigorous and statistically significant sampling of Wikipedia's coverage by area.
The closest thing I know of is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/The_Living_100_Biography, which, despite the name, is a limited survey of 405 articles. Based on the numbers there, as of April:
16% biographies of living people 14% biographies of dead people 1% biographies of fictional people 13% pop culture, which breaks down into 6% music (bands, albums, songs) 2% movies 2% television (stations, shows, episodes) 3% other 2% schools (all levels) 9% geographic articles 45% other
An older, smaller, but more detailed survey is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/The_100. As of November 2005, using an expanded definition of "geography":
27% biographies 26% geographic articles 25% pop culture 10% history 2% science 2% schools 6% other