On 21-Sep-06, at 4:46 PM, Angela wrote:
If you mean the talk pages, those are intended to work out the nuances of articles. In effect, they are an essential--integral--part of article building. If you mean policy pages, they are a small percentage of our 1.3 million article pages. Other than that, I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you?
Also, user pages, user subpages, user talk, templates, categories, portals, images and other files and their descriptions, guidelines, essays, proposals, FAC. RfA, AfD, other "votes" and discussions, interface pages, help pages, draft articles, archives, WikiProjects, vandalism reports, mediation, arbitration, other committees, etc, etc. Articles only make up 25% of the English Wikipedia.
Angela.
Actually, I just requested a run against the database on Toolserver. 48% of entries in the dataset are in the main namespace, and 13% are Talk pages. This number includes redirects and stubs, of course, but it's a rather different number than is being discussed here.
Amgine