Erik Moeller wrote:
It has been suggested on wikitech-l that the article count on the main page should only contain articles that have been edited at least once after their creation. The implicit assumption is that the primary use of the count is as a measure of our collaborative, human success.
I think that this is a good idea, even if you don't accept the implicit assumption. I propose one modification: Require a *non-minor* edit to count the article towards the total. Then when somebody spellchecks "seperate" to "separate", that won't count as collaborative, human work. (I know that not everybody uses the minor edit checkbox, but this would help.)
If people think that this makes a good change in the count, then perhaps we can get rid of the comma requirement, which I always thought was too arbitrary to have much meaning.
-- Toby