[Wikipedia-l] Article def for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}

[Neil Harris]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>This has been discussed in a few places and the consensus that I have 
>gathered is that most people would like to have a more conservative 
>definition for purposes of software detection.
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>Could this be enacted before we hit our "50%" milestone of 50,000 "articles"? 
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>Hitting that number could very well get us undeserved media attention and 
>subsequent media articles that are critical of our article count and average 
>article quality (based on byte size). That is not the type of media attention 
>we need.
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>For starters, a 500-1000 byte minimum page size should be part of the current 
>spec (keep this in mind though: there are many minor topics that can be 
>considered to be minimal articles with only 500 bytes). Other more 
>complicated criteria can be added later. 
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>Having the default behavior of "Random pages" to be "Random article" would be 
>nice to (that is, only pages that are automatically detected as articles 
>would be displayed). 
>
>-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) 
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I vote for a 500 byte cutoff to be added to the existing rules.  More 
conservative estimates can do us nothing but good.
1000 bytes is too brutal, though: as mav says, many simple topics can be 
dealt with in 500 bytes.  This will have the effect of reducing the 
article count by about 30%, to around 31,000.

The [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia]] page graphs can be adjusted to deal 
with the change in index.

Oh, by the way, can I be please be granted administrator privileges?

Neil