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

[Robert Rohde]

On 10/16/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_200710.svg
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> > Discuss amongst yourselves.
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> So to make sure I understand properly, this is saying that currently,
> roughly 11% of all articles in the English Wikipedia are biographies of
> living people?
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> If so, yikes.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mostlinkedcategories

Several of the largest categories are devoted to people, which immediately
makes clear they are a large fraction of all articles.

"Category:Biography articles without listas parameter" has 300,000 members,
so presumably there are at least 80,000 articles about people not currently
presumed to be living.

Or put another way, we have slightly more than 2 biographies of living
people for every 3 non-free images.

-Robert Rohde