[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[Amgine]

On 21-Sep-06, at 4:46 PM, Angela wrote:

>> If you mean the talk pages, those are intended to work out the  
>> nuances of
>> articles. In effect, they are an essential--integral--part of  
>> article building.
>> If you mean policy pages, they are a small percentage of our 1.3  
>> million
>> article  pages. Other than that, I have no idea what you are  
>> talking about. Do you?
>
> Also, user pages, user subpages, user talk, templates, categories,
> portals, images and other files and their descriptions, guidelines,
> essays, proposals, FAC. RfA, AfD, other "votes" and discussions,
> interface pages, help pages, draft articles, archives, WikiProjects,
> vandalism reports, mediation, arbitration, other committees, etc, etc.
> Articles only make up 25% of the English Wikipedia.
>
> Angela.

Actually, I just requested a run against the database on Toolserver.  
48% of entries in the dataset are in the main namespace, and 13% are  
Talk pages. This number includes redirects and stubs, of course, but  
it's a rather different number than is being discussed here.


Amgine
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