[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:03, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
>> Ian Woollard wrote:
>>> It's looking to me like 3.5 million is about the plateau, since the
>>> curve is bang on that, but we might make 4 million *eventually*.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth#Logistic_model_for_growth_in_article_count_of_Wikipedia
>>>
>> We'll know more around the beginning of 2010. In my view something is
>> likely to change in the direction of people valuing lists of "missing
>> articles" more, when it is clearer that drive-by creation is getting
>> drossier by the month (which is what that model implies). Of course I
>> can't quantify that: I know it is still easy to come up with sets of
>> 1000 topics that we don't cover at all well, and the total of redlinks
>> is still large.
>>
>> Charles
>
> Redlinks in general perhaps. Redlinks in articles a significant number
> of people actually read less so.

Redlinks are likely to be a poor estimate of numbers of "missing"
articles anyway. Some will be to articles that would be non-notable,
and redlinks tend to be removed - in other words links that would be
present if we had the article aren't there as redlinks.
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