Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :)
I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an underestimate. I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage". ----- "Carcharoth" <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > From: "Carcharoth" <carcharot...@googlemail.com> > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew > Turvey<andrewrtur...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a significant proportion of all > > articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if you do it for > > all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of cases" > > <snip> > > Off the top of your head? :-) > > I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like > somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical > articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP > figure is easily calculated though. > > 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people > > 400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009) > > 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics > > 3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009) > > Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l