User:Steinsky/100 sample

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On 2006-01-07 I sampled 100 random articles to find that on Wikipedia:

• Articles meeting good article criteria make up 0% of articles.
• Articles over four paragraphs long but not good articles make up 28% of articles.
• Articles less than four pargraphs but not stubs make up 14% of articles.
• Stubs over three sentences long or including infoboxes or lists make up 27% of articles.
• Substubs less than three sentences long or not establising context make up 14% of articles.

Of the remaining articles:

• 8% are lists.
• 3% need wikifying or cleanup.
• 5% are disambiguation pages.
• 1% need to be merged and redirected.
• 0% are listed for deletion.

Additionally, of the above categorised articles:

• 1% start with the wording "Topic is the name of..." and then turn out to be an article about the topic and not the name.
• 2% use a new paragraph for every sentence.
• 1% are about schools.
• 8% are about settlements.
• 4% were made by Rambot (but may have been expanded since).
• 3% use redundant headings like "Biography" and "Details".
• 2% have three or more references.
• 1% were started by me.