Forum:Article count past 40K, past 50K

In the past there has been interest in absolute counts of familypedia pages. Personally, I measure our increase in quality by the addition of richly illustrated and narrated articles like those of Richard Norton, Nathanville, and L Haglund.

The recent jumps from 30K to 40K then 50K articles in the last week are not especially noteworthy and have been due to the creation of subpages for existing articles, not the creation of new articles. One page is a standard family tree of ancestors, and the other page performs time consuming calculations so that they no longer slow down display of the article's main page. No change in performance will be observed until all these replacement pages are generated, and the slow code is removed from all the main pages.

Within the near future, there will be additional large jumps in counts that have little to do with how many real articles on individuals we have. Some of these pages are necessary so that auto completion of place names for cities, counties and other places will suggest the correct names so they will no longer be ambiguous. (eg: "Lake City" (Colorado, South Carolina, Minnesota, Michigan or Tennessee?)

Anyone interested in these new pages may view them in the recent list by turning on the "Show bots" flag. User:PhloxBot is generating all of these, either using AWB or Pywikipedia, so you can look at the contributions page, or its main page for the status of runs and what is planned in the near future.

- 20:21, October 28, 2009 (UTC)