On 09/21/11 2:37 AM, Craig Franklin wrote:
I'd caution against putting too much faith in
those raw numbers without a
clear understanding of what they mean. They can make sense comparing
different language editions of the same project, but comparing different
projects is apples and oranges. For instance, some months ago I was doing
some research and I found that for Wikisource it doesn't count the "Page"
and "Index" namespaces as "articles", even though that's where
the bulk of
the content generation is taking place these days.
That makes perfect sense; these are in an intermediate stage. One
wouldn't take a long Wikipedia article and say that it is the equivalent
of however many printed pages it would produce.
Ray