[Xmldatadumps-l] Number of pages on Wikipedia

Tue Jun 29 06:59:05 UTC 2010

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:06:07PM -0600, Chrisil J. Arackaparambil wrote:
> 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.  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?

Your page count likely includes redirect pages. Normally article counts
exclude redirects.

Greg Hewgill
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