[WikiEN-l] What en:wp would look like printed out

[Mark Wagner]

On 8/29/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> It's just a glimpse, of course, and doesn't take into account relative
> article size, but it doesn't look like Wikipedia is being "swamped" with
> fan writing. It would be interesting to see a more rigorous and
> statistically significant sampling of Wikipedia's coverage by area.

The closest thing I know of is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/The_Living_100_Biography,
which, despite the name, is a limited survey of 405 articles.  Based
on the numbers there, as of April:

16% biographies of living people
14% biographies of dead people
1% biographies of fictional people
13% pop culture, which breaks down into
  6% music (bands, albums, songs)
  2% movies
  2% television (stations, shows, episodes)
  3% other
2% schools (all levels)
9% geographic articles
45% other

An older, smaller, but more detailed survey is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/The_100.  As of November
2005, using an expanded definition of "geography":

27% biographies
26% geographic articles
25% pop culture
10% history
2% science
2% schools
6% other

-- 
Mark