[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 9/21/06, Amgine <amgine at saewyc.net> wrote:
> 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.

It's WAY more than 50% if you count by revision.

wikidb=> select page_namespace=0 as main_ns,count(page_title) from
analysis_user group by (page_namespace=0);
 main_ns |  count
-------------+----------
 t            | 42893625
 f            | 15652166
(2 rows)

If in fact waking about writing an encyclopedia were indeed more
popular, it would be a sad thing indeed... But I suppose it's only
natural for everyone to think their own involvement is the most
important...

I for one am glad that Wikipedia isn't MYSPACE... although I suppose
that the truth might suck for those from Wikia.