[Xmldatadumps-l] Number of pages on Wikipedia

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Chrisil J. Arackaparambil, 29/06/2010 02:06:
> I was doing a bit of analysis of the dump
> enwiki-20100130-pages-meta-history.xml.7z.  What I found to my surprise
> is that there are (at least) 7 million pages in the main namespace. 

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces

> I
> got this figure by grepping for page titles that do not contain a ":"
> character.  Is this really the case or am I missing something?  I'd seen
> some Wikimedia stats that said the number of articles currently is about
> 3.2 million, so I'm not sure why I'm seeing so many pages in the dump.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Article_count

Nemo