Karl Juhnke wrote:
Date Median article size in bytes
8/30 990
By the way, I love the new stats which have been posted in http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Statistics
Just to put things in perspective, here are a few articles which are exactly 1000 bytes: * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatimundi * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco
Just a few brief paragraphs, but enough to give you a general sense of what's being discussed.
For comparison, here are some 250 byte stubs: * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Harrison * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_magazine
some 500 byte articlettes: * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_geometry * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_le_Breton
and some nice 2000 byte articles: * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein
About 46% of pages in the article namespace that are not redirects fall between the 500 to 2000 byte range. 23% are larger than that, and 21% fall between 250 and 500 bytes. The remaining 10% are minuscule stublets under 250 bytes.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)