[WikiEN-l] Tic, toc, tic, toc - Approaching 100,000 English "articles"

[Daniel Mayer]

I've said this before and I will say it one more time: Do we want to keep the 
piss-poor definition for automatic article detection? 

I propose (again) that the current definition be used for "entries" and a more 
stringent definition be used for "probable articles" (everything, of course, 
is still a page). 

We can simply take the count for entries and exclude anything that is less 
than 500 bytes and has a link on it to [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation]] (or is 
listed on one of links of disambiguating pages pages). That would give us 
about 80,000 probable articles in the English Wikipedia (yes that still 
includes about 30,000 rambot articles but so what? They are far more useful 
as /articles/ than are many other entries we call articles).

The current prediction is that we should hit the 100,000 mark the middle of 
next week. Press release or no press release, that number on the Main Page 
will get some attention (thus the need for a press release to explain 
things). 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)