Karl Juhnke wrote:
Date Median article size in bytes
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8/30 990
By the way, I love the new stats which have been posted in
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Statistics
Just to put things in perspective, here are a few articles which are
exactly 1000 bytes:
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatimundi
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco
Just a few brief paragraphs, but enough to give you a general sense of
what's being discussed.
For comparison, here are some 250 byte stubs:
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism
*
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Harrison
*
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_magazine
some 500 byte articlettes:
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel
*
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_geometry
*
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_le_Breton
and some nice 2000 byte articles:
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism
*
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein
About 46% of pages in the article namespace that are not redirects fall
between the 500 to 2000 byte range. 23% are larger than that, and 21%
fall between 250 and 500 bytes. The remaining 10% are minuscule stublets
under 250 bytes.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)