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

[Anthony]

On 10/17/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > Do we even have any evidence that Rambot in fact did affect the growth
> > > of biographies.
> >
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_200710.svg
> >
> > And there's the answer.  No.  Rambot didn't affect the growth of
> > biographies much at all.  There's a spike in early 2002 (can someone
> > check out what that is?), but the graph of biographies is basically
> > unaffected by rambot (late 2002, right?).
> >
> > A non-exponential graph focusing on the months right around the rambot
> > push would make this more clear.  Are the raw numbers available
> > somewhere?
>
> Image talkpage has the raw data. Lay on, Macduff...
>
First spike is February 25, 2002.  Conversion script.