[WikiEN-l] redirect stat

[Rolf Lampa]

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:

> How many redirects does enWP have? My question is not entirely idle.

In the enwiki-20070908.xml dump there's exactly 2.216.516 redirects. 
The number is based on the *last* revision as of the aforementioned 
September enwiki dump.

Only syntactically valid #redirects are counted (that is, balanced 
pairs of [[...]] ). So far my counter does not regard whether the 
*target* page for the redirect actually exist.

The number was counted using my own tool, work name 
"RILMediawikiProcessor" **

Regards,

// Rolf Lampa

** RILMediawikiProcessor, a windows appliction built with Delphi 
(development still in progress).