[Wikipedia-l] Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia

[maru dubshinki]

On 9/1/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Out of the 78,977 categories, 12,252 are not assigned to any article"
> > Is it that bad, or are these categories just assigned to user
> > talk/wikipedia/etc. namespace pages and therefore not counted?
>
> There's quite a few cats which serve only to group subcategories, and
> don't have any articles that belong in them.
>
> [[Category:American people by occupation]], for example - all the
> articles belong in subcategories, and as these are pretty disparate
> categories there's no article really dealing with the subject of the
> main category.
>
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray

Wait, isn't that encouraged? I had thought that most categories were
supposed to categorize categories, and only the terminal categories
were supposed to have articles in them - ex. [[Category:Free
software]] should have only categories in it, not articles on
software.

~maru