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

[Thomas Dalton]

> Oh wait, there is also a "Category:Biography articles with listas parameter"
> with 140,000 members.  If the with/without "listas" are assumed to be a
> complete set then there are 445,000 biography articles, which would give
> roughly equal numbers of living and dead biographies.  So ~22% of Wikipedia
> is biographies.

Sounds about right to me.

Conclusive proof: I just clicked Random Page 10 times and got 2
biographies (didn't check if they were alive or not).