[WikiEN-l] redirect stat

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/5/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
> charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com schreef:
> > How many redirects does enWP have? My question is not entirely idle.
>
> In the August 2 database dump, I believe there are around 2,052,140 of
> them. That's "articles" that match /#REDIRECT\s*\[\[(.*)]]/i in the main
> namespace.
>
> Eugene

Yeah, I'd definitely say making those numbers prominently visible
would only lead to deletionism and drama.

—C.W.