Ian Woollard wrote:
On 04/10/2008, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
The first is a minor point, but it says a dab
page is not an article. As far
as I know, it is within the technical definition of "article", and
numerically it is counted as an article.
I read somewhere or other (that I can't immediately locate) that
actually the tech guys have gone to some trouble to exclude some
classes of pages-IRC redirects and disambiguation pages were among
them.
I thought I remembered the various page counts explained somewhere, but
the explanation currently seems to be missing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics gives "Content pages" as
2,571,387, and "Pages*" as 14,761,735. Presumably the asterisk on
"Pages*" is supposed to explain the difference, but there's no asterisk
footnote anywhere on the page.
-Mark