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

[David Gerard]

On 29 November 2010 17:33, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Points arise from that, clearly. But I'm hearing quite a lot recently
> from the "glass half empty" people. You know, ten short stubs are
> created, and a year later five are still stubby, five are much improved.
> Are we glad to have five new substantial articles, or embarrassed to
> have persistent five stubs? So has this made things proportionately
> better or worse? Discuss.


Wikipedia is a work in progress, despite a certain proportion of
editors always having been uncomfortable with this being apparent, and
a stub is frequently more informative to the reader than nothing.


- d.