Hi,
since the site stats are conveniently stored in the site_stats table, I
suggest subtracting the number of articles created by the Ram-Man bot
(US Census city information) from the total number of articles.
Why? The NOA is primarily interesting as a measure of our collaborative
progress. This is important for ourselves and for others. Personally,
I've had several discussions about Wikipedia where I was reluctant to
cite the NOA because of the high number of machine-generated articles,
others probably feel the same.
I therefore believe we should generally exclude autogenerated articles
(we can change the wording on Main_Page to reflect this). As it would be
a 5 minute task for anyone with access to the db, is there any reason
not to do it?
Regards,
Erik
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