Vicki,
Gareth and I revised the offending passage. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ed Poor
I don't know whether all the talk about stubs has had some effect, but over the past week the median article sized has stopped dropping.
Date Median article size in bytes ---- ---------------------------- 8/15 1001 8/18 999 8/19 997 8/20 995 8/21 995 8/22 991 8/23 990 8/24 989 8/25 988 8/26 990 8/27 990 8/28 990 8/29 991 8/30 990
By the way, I love the new stats which have been posted in http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Statistics
If we are too wedded to the current front page count to change it (i.e. if we don't want to drop back below 30,000 "articles" just after having broken 40,000) at least we could have the more conservative count generated and explained on some other page, e.g. [[Wikipedia:What is an article]].
Peace, -Karl
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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)
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