[WikiEN-l] The percentage of English Wikipedia articles about living people over time.

[Thomas Dalton]

On 16/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_200710.svg
>
>
> So what did you do for numbers before [[Category:Living people]] was
> created in late 2005?

See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_200710.svg

It looks like he took a current snapshot of the category and looked at
their histories to find creation dates. That method misses any
articles which have been deleted, but I don't think that's a serious
issue (they were probably deleted for a good reason, so including them
would artificially inflate past figures).