[WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

[Charles Matthews]

On 04/12/2010 12:05, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> WereSpielChequers, All,
>
>> 1 The size of the database in gigabytes has been growing faster than
>> the the number of articles
> This is a weak argument. The constant activity of interwiki bots alone will add a huge amount of database storage space without increasing the real length of the articles.

OK, but the interwiki business seems a reasonably strong argument in the 
stub versus no stub at all business; and stubs with an interwiki are 
much less likely to be cruft-like parochial stuff.

Anyway, glad this thread has zombie properties. I did want to ask at 
some point whether having too few stubs can be a problem. And 
WereSpielChequers's argument would have suggested we might be at point 
where this could happen in the mid-term.

Charles