Robert Rohde wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:13 AM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
The following are the top ten instances of inline
styling from main
namespace pages on the English Wikipedia, as of about 2015-10-02:
1552197 text-align: center;
499756 text-align: left;
355952 background: #dfffdf;
235222 background: #cfcfff;
215038 background: #efcfff;
210702 text-align: right;
143095 display: none;
93646 background: #efefef;
86391 font-size: 90%;
80420 background: #fff;
I'm not sure what your bug is, but those counts are way too high to be
accurate reflections of the wikitext in the main namespace on enwiki.
Err, based on what? :-)
These numbers are instances of style="[...]", not page counts. Looking at
a specific example from <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P2230>:
1164 font-family: 'microsoft yi baiti', 'noto sans yi', nsimsun-18030,
simsun-18030, 'sil yi', code2000;
These 1,164 inline styling instances all come from a single article:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=672244691&action=edit>.
Maybe that's the confusion? I tried to make my descriptions as clear as
possible and I'm not saying a major bug is impossible, of course, but I
don't have any reason so far to doubt the data I collected.
Another strange case is "background-color: {{/meta/color}};", which had
16,432 instances. This almost looks like it would try to transclude a
subpage of the article, but due to subpages being disabled in the main
namespace on the English Wikipedia, it's actually transcluding a template
named "/meta/color":
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:/meta/color>.
I did concurrently look at the approximate number of non-redirect pages
that contain inline styling. My findings were that about 408,777
non-redirect pages contain some kind of inline styling on the English
Wikipedia (cf. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115228#1752223>).
MZMcBride