Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:

I don't understand why there are important differences for the numbers of articles for some Wiktionaries with the manual count (from Special:Statistics) at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary and http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wiktionary/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm :

• 323 vs. 209 for Esperanto (eo)
• 301 vs. 83 for Serbian (sr)

Maybe the stats counter does not count an article whose links are all in templates as having a link in the article itself?

Or maybe it's just that it's using a slightly outdated version of the database -- it's dated March 9.

There are also curious figures for database size http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wiktionary/EN/TablesDatabaseSize.htm

3.4 M for Esperanto (eo) for 323/209 articles

Several large index pages, such as http://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vortaro_Germana-Esperanta_d

32 M for Interlingua (ia) for 253 articles

Interlingua has a lot of index pages, also.

1.1 M for Slovak (sk) for 21 articles

That *is* odd. http://sk.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%A0peci%C3%A1lne:Longpages lists a lot of 10 and 20K pages, and the article for "Wiki" is purportedly almost 70K long.

Apparently it was a target for Chinese spam: http://sk.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki&oldid=1725

14 M for Basque (eu) for 60 articles

eu: also has similar indices to ia:, and seems to have been chosen as the new host for the Romanica material.

*Muke!