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

[Anthony]

On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/07, 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?
>
> Rejoice for the the impossible super-intelligence of hindsight: If an
> article is *currently* a living person bio it *always was*.

The converse, however, is not true.  [[Category:2007 deaths]] has over
2000 entries.  [[Category:2006 deaths]] has over 3000 entries.
Combined that only makes up for a quarter of a percent of all
articles, but that's probably enough to put the drop at the end of the
curve into question.