[WikiEN-l] Citizendium dead?

[Stephen Bain]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One very interesting Citizendium statistic is the median article
> length in words. It has been reducing by about 6 words a month for
> years. I think that means most of the new articles being created are
> stubs, or not much more than stubs, and nobody is working on expanding
> existing articles. I feign no hypotheses for why this might be. I
> don't have comparable statistics for Wikipedia, so for all I know we
> are doing the same thing (although that seems unlikely now that
> article creation has reduced).

At Eric Zachte's stats page there are a number of relevant stats measured.

Firstly there is average bytes per article. For most projects, this is
increasing steadily over time:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesBytesPerArticle.htm

Then there are a couple indicative of the number of stubs and
short-to-medium-length articles, percentage over 500 bytes of readable
text (ie not markup) and percentage over 2000 bytes of readable text
(although the URL would suggest 1500 bytes?). Most projects seem to
hit and maintain a stable level in the 500 byte chart, and build
steadily on their level in the 2000 byte chart:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesGt500Bytes.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesGt1500Bytes.htm

There are charts available too as well as tables.

There's also this tool of mine which shows a graph of the distribution
of article sizes (caches results, but can be a bit slow if it hasn't
been run on a particular project in a while):

http://toolserver.org/~thebainer/articlesizes/

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com