[WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs
Andrew Turvey
andrewrturvey at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 26 11:17:50 UTC 2009
Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :)
I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an underestimate.
I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage".
----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew
> Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a significant proportion of all articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if you do it for all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of cases"
>
> <snip>
>
> Off the top of your head? :-)
>
> I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like
> somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical
> articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP
> figure is easily calculated though.
>
> 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people
>
> 400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009)
>
> 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
>
> 3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009)
>
> Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%.
>
> Carcharoth
>
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