Daniel Mayer wrote:
I've said this before and I will say it one more time: Do we want to keep the piss-poor definition for automatic article detection?
The idea of an "encyclopedia" consisting of "articles" is based in three centuries of printed works. What we're building here is something new, a dynamic "web" of "nodes". Perhaps the number of edits per day is a more interesting measure than the number of articles. If we have 200,000 articles and nobody updates them, what will the value of Wikipedia be? Should the special:statistics page show the number of edits and page views per day and per month?
The power of an automobile is still measured in horsepowers, but other metrics are all new, such as the milage (miles per gallon of fuel).