On 10/16/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_20071…
Discuss amongst yourselves.
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?
If so, yikes.
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
