[WikiEN-l] "Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement"

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 15:10, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We *should* have a category of BLP stubs, but I can't find it. Maybe
>> someone can cross-reference the BLP category and the "people stub"
>> category (and its sub-categories) and find out how many are BLPs.
>>
>> In principle that shouldn't be too hard to do, with Catscan 2.0 to
> intersect categories for you. In practice the toolserver can't be taken for
> granted. And it seems that the naive way of doing this produces a list that
> is just too big (I took sub-categories to depth 5 there). To get an idea,
> if you do 1950 births intersect people stubs you get something over 2000.
> Which suggests the magnitude of the problem might be around 100,000.

This presumes 2000 every year from 1950 to 2000? Might not be that,
but something of that order of magnitude. Thanks. I wish the
toolserver and tools like that wouldn't trip up or time out over large
stuff like that. The inability to get a true sense of the bigger
picture can lead to potential failure points.

Carcharoth