On 01/11/05, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
uninvited(a)nerstrand.net wrote
There are 661 admins on en.wikipedia. Of these,
461 were active during
the month of October, 2005. They deleted 60313 pages [...]
A striking number, i.e. 2000 per day. More than the amount of honest page
creation.
How many are honestly created? Interesting question.
Special:Newpages stalls just shy of 55,000 (I think only counting
article-space creations, but including redirects) and that's 12:42 on
the 2nd of October, close enough to a full month. So we've a
discrepancy of only a few thousand pages between "junk" and "viable";
the sixty thousand deletions a month means we're deleting about half
of what turns up, and when you factor in recent large-scale image
purges[1] we're probably letting more than half of the page creations
through.
I'm surprised that high a fraction survives, in all honesty, having
done new-pages patrol a few times before!
[1] Anyone know how many articles were killed last month, OOI?
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