[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 90, Issue 121

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Sep 22 07:48:20 UTC 2011


On 09/21/11 2:37 AM, Craig Franklin wrote:
> I'd caution against putting too much faith in those raw numbers without a
> clear understanding of what they mean.  They can make sense comparing
> different language editions of the same project, but comparing different
> projects is apples and oranges.  For instance, some months ago I was doing
> some research and I found that for Wikisource it doesn't count the "Page"
> and "Index" namespaces as "articles", even though that's where the bulk of
> the content generation is taking place these days.
>
>
That makes perfect sense; these are in an intermediate stage. One 
wouldn't take a long Wikipedia article and say that it is the equivalent 
of however many printed pages it would produce.

Ray





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