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The latest results aren't available yet, but the most recent word count of 6 billion dates from Nov 09. 0.01% of that over 5000 pages would give 120 words per p
by Jabbles 16y ago
The latest results aren't available yet, but the most recent word count of 6 billion dates from Nov 09. 0.01% of that over 5000 pages would give 120 words per page. Something is missing.
Nor does the "0.01%" refer to the number of articles. The author's website says this is a printout of the (English) "Featured articles" (currently 3235). Neither dividing that by the number of English articles (3.6M) or total articles (18.1M) gives 0.01%.
So I can't see where they got 0.01% from.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/ http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/
- vog 16y agoAlthough I appreciate your effort, I don't think it makes any sense that we try figure this out on our own. It's the task of the author, not the readers, to deliver those facts.
- camiller 16y agoSome of the comments at the article site seem to be from the author. One of them says they selected 400 articles from the featured articles and at the time that was 0.013% of all the articles.
- estel 16y agoThis story dates from June 2009, but taking into account the article counts from this date (2.9 million, 13.6 million for English / all respectively) doesn't account for the disparity in numbers.