On 10/17/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 10/17/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Do we even have any evidence that Rambot in fact did affect the growth of biographies.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_200710.svg
And there's the answer. No. Rambot didn't affect the growth of biographies much at all. There's a spike in early 2002 (can someone check out what that is?), but the graph of biographies is basically unaffected by rambot (late 2002, right?).
A non-exponential graph focusing on the months right around the rambot push would make this more clear. Are the raw numbers available somewhere?
Image talkpage has the raw data. Lay on, Macduff...
First spike is February 25, 2002. Conversion script.