[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Magnus Manske" wrote

> > Sounds like there is an interesting exercise for a statistician here: by sampling from the larger Wikipedias, estimate the total number of article topics in them, taken collectively.
 
> Easy:
>    all articles on en.wikipedia
> + all articles on other wikipedias that do *not* have an interlanguage
> link to en.wikipedia (substract doublettes that are connected in an
> "interwiki web" not including en.wikipedia; count these as 1)
> 
> There, all done :-)

You have a touching faith that interwiki is 100% efficient.

I think you've found a plausible upper bound, though.

Charles

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