On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:13:00PM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
Tomasz-
Could we please stop voting ? The only vote so far, about article counters, resulted in total disaster when we lost quite meaningful counting system to something that explicitely includes every stub.
It counted stubs before as well. Virtually every stub has a comma.
Given that number of "articles" jumped some 20% with new counters, your statement is outright false.
Furthermore, the old method broke several non-English counts, which is why we changed it.
"Old method" was to use different counter for CJK wikipedias, don't you remember ?
Many people simply disagree that stubs should not be counted, so they have voted accordingly. The new method only counts stubs that are wikified. You are free to disapprove of the result, but you are a small minority.
They didn't disagree - they didn't *understand* the issue. It's technical decision, so it doesn't matter who's a minority, but who's right, and for counting "articles" old method was clearly superior.
But then, English Wikipedia has already history of counterfeiting stats, with Rambot.