[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[SJ]

On 9/21/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...

Now, now :-)

I like these numbers.  To restate my last question -- 25% of all
revisions are to non-article pages.  Is this in accordance with the
goal of producing a great encyclopedia, or is this noise that we
should eventually reduce to a more manageable level?

--SJ