Author: qleah
Description:
A recent discussion on [[en:Wikipedia:Village pump]] suggests the addition of a
special page, possibly [[Special:Statistics]], to automatically determine
interesting statistics about individual articles. In particular, the following
statistics are desired:
- Total size of article (in kb)
- Total size of text (in kb)
- Total size of readable text (in kb)
- Total size of all images in article (in kb)
- Readable Word Count (excluding headings etc as per definitions of '''article
count - alternative''')
- Amount of internal links
- Amount of external links
: As well as up-to-date information on the page which shows what the average
Wikipedia article is like in comparison to the article, plus additional
information on the language version. (eg Average Wikipedia article size is 2078
bytes, compared to English language article size of 2315 bytes)
Additional useful statistics include ''character'', sentence, and paragraph
counts, and readability score (noting readability is language-specific).
While it is possible to download the entire database or use [[Special:Export]],
the former may be infeasible, and both require the user to parse wiki code on
their own, which could be processed much more efficiently by the server.
There is also confusion about what the size as given by [[Special:Search]]
actually represents (wiki code vs. HTML vs. rendered text, with or without images).
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump#Ways_of_determining_article_size