Very attractive, very cool. Ideogram 23:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Updated the stats to Nov 06. There is no data that I can find for the exact number of articles on Wikipedia in September and October - the old versions of pages show the current stats script, ie they show the current number of articles even if the old v is from months ago.
Also, I don't really understand what the bottom grpah is getting at, so I left it alone. Chrisfow 21:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I just updated the table with GA and FA numbers. Does anyone know where to one can find the total article number? -- RelHistBuff 11:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
GA growth is no longer linear. The number of GAs per month is steadily increasing. I'm not strong enough in statistics to get much more specific than that, but it's obvious that when this page says the growth is linear, it's wrong. Wrad ( talk) 18:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am unable to update the data even though I would like to. My problem is to identify the number of good articles at a certain date, i. e. at the 1 May 2009. I would greatly appreciate it if somebody helps the cause. Thank you and best regards -- Marbot ( talk) 16:03, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
I asked the question over at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), and apparently there is no way around this. The number is "no longer...updated by a bot but suing an expression", whatever that means. I did what Gimmetrow suggested, and I got the following numbers:
1 April - 6621 (+258) 1 May - 6811 (+190) 1 June - 6987 (+176)
This was done by transferring the list to a Word-document, and searching for every instance of "[[" (first removing "[[Image:...", there are 42 of these). These numbers are not quite accurate, which can be seen by the fact that the number at the end of May is higher than the current number. Apparently people haven't been good enough at removing delisted articles. If these numbers are to be believed, there seems to be a declining growth rate, but I think much of this can be explained by increased activity over at Sweeps, where a lot of articles were delisted last month. Lampman ( talk) 11:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for dealing with this problem. What about these 40-something articles? -- Marbot ( talk) 12:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I have taken the liberty of updating the data up until 1 April 2010 and have added a graph showing total number of articles for comparison purposes. –– Jezhotwells ( talk) 01:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
For fun I took a look at some figures and using an optimistic monthly growth of 4.5% for GA's and letting it climb without limits(quite unrealistic but hey!) and it worked out we would reach 100K GA articles in 5 years time and a million in 10 years time. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 01:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Not surprised there are more GA than FA, but wonder the reason for the rate difference even on a relative basis? TCO ( talk) 14:02, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Very attractive, very cool. Ideogram 23:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Updated the stats to Nov 06. There is no data that I can find for the exact number of articles on Wikipedia in September and October - the old versions of pages show the current stats script, ie they show the current number of articles even if the old v is from months ago.
Also, I don't really understand what the bottom grpah is getting at, so I left it alone. Chrisfow 21:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I just updated the table with GA and FA numbers. Does anyone know where to one can find the total article number? -- RelHistBuff 11:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
GA growth is no longer linear. The number of GAs per month is steadily increasing. I'm not strong enough in statistics to get much more specific than that, but it's obvious that when this page says the growth is linear, it's wrong. Wrad ( talk) 18:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am unable to update the data even though I would like to. My problem is to identify the number of good articles at a certain date, i. e. at the 1 May 2009. I would greatly appreciate it if somebody helps the cause. Thank you and best regards -- Marbot ( talk) 16:03, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
I asked the question over at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), and apparently there is no way around this. The number is "no longer...updated by a bot but suing an expression", whatever that means. I did what Gimmetrow suggested, and I got the following numbers:
1 April - 6621 (+258) 1 May - 6811 (+190) 1 June - 6987 (+176)
This was done by transferring the list to a Word-document, and searching for every instance of "[[" (first removing "[[Image:...", there are 42 of these). These numbers are not quite accurate, which can be seen by the fact that the number at the end of May is higher than the current number. Apparently people haven't been good enough at removing delisted articles. If these numbers are to be believed, there seems to be a declining growth rate, but I think much of this can be explained by increased activity over at Sweeps, where a lot of articles were delisted last month. Lampman ( talk) 11:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for dealing with this problem. What about these 40-something articles? -- Marbot ( talk) 12:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I have taken the liberty of updating the data up until 1 April 2010 and have added a graph showing total number of articles for comparison purposes. –– Jezhotwells ( talk) 01:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
For fun I took a look at some figures and using an optimistic monthly growth of 4.5% for GA's and letting it climb without limits(quite unrealistic but hey!) and it worked out we would reach 100K GA articles in 5 years time and a million in 10 years time. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 01:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Not surprised there are more GA than FA, but wonder the reason for the rate difference even on a relative basis? TCO ( talk) 14:02, 15 December 2010 (UTC)