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

[Steve Bennett]

On 10/17/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
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It must be a significant underestimate, since any article about a living
person, which is not explicitly labelled [[Category:Living people]] isn't
counted.

Looking through the stubs I've created in the last year or two, I have made
7 about living people: Daniel Wyllie, Lech Kowalski, Franck Sorbier, Vadim
Perelman, Eric Harshbarger, Adam Elliot and John Long (climber). Two of
those are in the magic category, and 5 aren't. If that ratio held up across
Wikipedia, the proportion
of articles about living people would be about 40%, not 12%.

Steve