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

[Mark Wagner]

On 9/2/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> And wouldn't there be a lot of database space taken up by redundant
> categories like this? We could have articles for them, maybe, but at
> this rate we'll need to start 'WikiProject WikiDbCleanup'. If there
> are 12,000 categories, that has to make up a significant body of data.

At a rough estimate, the entire category structure of the English
Wikipedia takes up as much database space as the edit history of
[[George W Bush]].  I wouldn't worry about it.

-- 
Mark
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