[Foundation-l] Tragical dynamics: that run for the number of articles

Sun Jun 29 15:24:48 UTC 2008

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> Stephen Bain wrote:
>
>> Swedish Wikipedia is distributed in almost exactly the same way
>> as English Wikipedia, with the difference being that its average
>> size is less than half that of En's, at around 1900 bytes.
...
> It was only recently that the stubbiness of the Swedish Wikipedia,
> relative to other languages of Wikipedia, started to come into
> public awareness.  Most regular wikipedians are now aware of this.

Well, since the graphs are distributed in the same way, one can say
that Swedish Wikipedia is just as stubby as the English Wikipedia, if
you define a stub relative to the average article size, which I think
is probably a better definition than any absolute byte value.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com