On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com wrote:
Maybe this is not the most popular item, but I do like to comment on the news about Japanese and Polish Wikipedias and their 500,000 articles each. In fact, jp.WP actually has 500,000, but pl.WP does not. In an attempt to compare Wikipedia language editions I have clicked the button "random articles" and with a sample of 50 clicks each I have calculated how many articles a language edition really has, minus all those pseudo articles.
Yes, it's good to remind folks that "article count" is not a good metric as it fails to take into account the cultural norms within the language communities.
For a real startling view of what you are observing, you can see the wikistats show Ja: (orange) has never had a "bot bump" like pl:, where all those jagged jumps (yellow) are bot additions, meaning those articles very likely have never been edited by humans.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngArticlesTotal.htm#p2
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)