"Charlotte Webb" wrote
As for the actual number, I'm willing to make an unscientific guess of half a million, maybe more. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's one per four articles. On the low side. I've just written that there are more redirects than articles. Any chance of that being true? My gut feeling is that with 2 million articles, 10 million pages, there must be millions of redirects in there to make up the numbers. Any pie chart?
Charles
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"Charlotte Webb" wrote
As for the actual number, I'm willing to make an unscientific guess of half a million, maybe more. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's one per four articles. On the low side. I've just written that there are more redirects than articles. Any chance of that being true? My gut feeling is that with 2 million articles, 10 million pages, there must be millions of redirects in there to make up the numbers. Any pie chart?
There are stats at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseRedirects.htm, created from the database dumps. Unfortunately, the last succesful complete database dump for enwiki seems to be from september 2006; there were 1.4 M redirects then, compared to 1.4 M articles (http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm).
So the numbers are fairly close. Last August, the numbers were 2.05 M redirects (as I wrote in my previous mail) and 1.92 M articles ([[Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia]]).
Many of the other pages are probably talk pages and user pages, but I don't quite see how they add up to the missing number of 6 million.
Eugene