On 10/17/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Enwikipedia_articles_bios_pct_200710...
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