User:Stormie/Random

A random survey of 50 pages

Inspired by TPK's random survey, I hit up 50 random pages and noted down some statistics.

Page content

• Places - 13 (26%) (including 5 Rambot articles)
• People - 7 (14%)
• Concepts - 5 (10%)
• Albums - 3 (6%)
• Companies - 2 (4%)
• Books - 1 (2%)
• Copyright Violations - 1 (2%)
• Disambiguation Pages - 1 (2%)
• Fictional Characters - 1 (2%)
• Lists - 1 (2%)
• Software Packages - 1 (2%)
• TV Episodes - 1 (2%)
• Species - 1 (2%)

• Other - 12 (24%)

Statistics

• Number of pages with Categories - 24 (48%)
• Number of pages with "See Also" links - 9 (18%)
• Number of pages with external links - 12 (24%)
• Number of pages with infoboxes or nav boxes - 7 (14%)
• Number of pages with images or diagrams - 8 (16%)
• Number of pages with reasonable wikification - 49 (98%)
• Number of pages I thought to be stubs - 19 (38%)
• Number of pages with "stub" tag - 14 (74% of the stubs)
• Number of pages with interwiki links to other languages - 4 (8%)

• Number of pages which I felt I had to make an edit to before I requested the next random page (e.g. untagged stubs, blatant spelling or wikification errors) - 14 (28%)
• Number of pages which I listed on Wikipedia:Cleanup because they needed more attention than I could give without interrupting my survey - 2 (4%)

Other notes

I recognised one page as one I'd edited a few days ago, and one page as one I'd read recently.

One page (Gush Dan) had undetected vandalism on it - it had been vandalised 24 days previously.

The 50 articles

A Pagan Place, Come to Daddy, Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack), Lord of Chaos, ABC Family, Patria, Automatic message exchange, Center of mass, Growth management, Hypocenter, Resource starvation, Lhasa Apso, Glen, Lilah Morgan, Socio-technical systems, Bobby Hill (baseball player), Charles Pelham Villiers, Donald Trumbull, George E. Clymer, Henry Cobham, Joel Silver, John C. Turmel, Danebury, Glorioso Islands, Gush Dan, Jekabpils, Kasai, Hyogo, Komarno, Misato, Tokushima, New Lynn, New Zealand, Asherton, Texas, Byron, Illinois, Marion, Juneau County, Wisconsin, Waltham Township, Minnesota, West Springfield, Massachusetts, GNU Aspell, Accipitriformes, Lonely Among Us (TNG episode), Abwe, Contemporary culture of South Korea, Culture of Cambodia, Dean Forest Railway, Demographics of the Central African Republic, Noric language, Puerto Rico at the 2004 Summer Olympics, RACA Fourth Decade 1933-1942, Ramsgate tugboats, Singapore Airlines Flight 6, UTF-2000, Woolwich Ferry

—Stormie 05:48, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)

A random (weighted by popularity) survey of 100 pages

Inspired by Matt Crypto's random articles weighted by popularity, I hit up 100 more pages, this time selected by his script.

Page content

• Books - 2%
• Companies/organizations - 5%
• Concepts - 13%
• Disambiguation pages - 4%
• Fictional characters - 2%
• Historical events/periods - 10%
• Lists - 1%
• Memes - 1%
• People - 16%
• Places - 8% (including 1 Rambot article)
• Species - 5%
• TV shows - 2%
• Video games - 1%
• Wikipedia namespace pages - 1%

• Other - 29%

Statistics

• Number of pages with Categories - 74%
• Number of pages with "See Also" links - 37%
• Number of pages with external links - 53%
• Number of pages with infoboxes or nav boxes - 22%
• Number of pages with images or diagrams - 32%
• Number of pages with reasonable wikification - 100%
• Number of pages I thought to be stubs - 32%
• Number of pages with "stub" tag - 22% (69% of the stubs)
• Number of pages with interwiki links to other languages - 57%

• Number of pages which I felt I had to make an edit to before I requested the next random page (e.g. untagged stubs, blatant spelling or wikification errors) - 35%
• Number of pages which I listed on Wikipedia:Cleanup because they needed more attention than I could give without interrupting my survey - 0
• Number of pages which I listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion - 1%

I would say that this sampling of articles was superior in every way to my original sampling. Seems pretty clear that the articles with lots of reads are also getting lots of edits, and thus tend to be in much better shape.

The 100 articles

• MASSIVE (animation) — (88 hits)
• Super Bowl XX — (99 hits)
• Heuristic argument — (90 hits)
• British Royal Proclamation of 1763 — (150 hits)
• Ramat Gan — (39 hits)
• Kamehameha I — (96 hits)
• Sexual slang — (27536 hits)
• Programmable logic — (42 hits)
• Alphabet — (1736 hits)
• Defect — (65 hits)
• Electrical generator — (336 hits)
• Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten — (411 hits)
• B-18 Bolo — (72 hits)
• Ernest King — (43 hits)
• Music — (2999 hits)
• Friends — (822 hits)
• Émilie Heymans — (41 hits)
• Computer keyboard — (6882 hits)
• Yuzhnoe — (6 hits)
• Peking Man — (137 hits)
• Apprentice Pillar — (58 hits)
• Ultima — (479 hits)
• Canada and the Vietnam War — (83 hits)
• John Smith (Welsh politician) — (16 hits)
• 1998 — (3762 hits)
• Zacharias Jansen — (64 hits)
• AN-94 — (428 hits)
• Ford Sierra — (171 hits)
• Type--metaphysics — (10 hits)
• Ruler — (201 hits)
• Pork barrel — (846 hits)
• Lying-in-state — (421 hits)
• Zell Miller — (6643 hits)
• Billboard Music Charts — (77 hits)
• Sperm whale — (171 hits)
• Merchant-Ivory — (36 hits)
• Video game crash of 1983 — (544 hits)
• Dendrobium — (42 hits)
• How to edit a page — (141 hits)
• NOD — (28 hits)
• Matthew Arnold — (215 hits)
• Paddy Chayefsky — (72 hits)
• October — (1812 hits)
• Moments of Transition — (6 hits)
• Vomit Comet — (54 hits)
• Nguyen Ngoc Loan — (909 hits)
• Fauvism — (205 hits)
• Chechnya — (18423 hits)
• Philosophical skepticism — (215 hits)
• Theodore Kaczynski — (947 hits)
• Reasoning — (280 hits)
• Institute for Mathematics and its Applications — (7 hits)
• Irish theatre — (132 hits)
• Hair mousse — (16 hits)
• Suzuki SV650(S) — (52 hits)
• Frieda — (41 hits)
• Textdrive — (29 hits)
• Acrylate — (39 hits)
• Aire urbaine — (170 hits)
• Ductility — (145 hits)
• Receiver — (130 hits)
• Reformation — (748 hits)
• Porn star — (592 hits)
• Natural selection — (888 hits)
• The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium — (6 hits)
• Temporomandibular Joint Disorder — (111 hits)
• Al-Ma'mun — (81 hits)
• Amundsen Sea — (22 hits)
• Monera — (313 hits)
• Queue — (209 hits)
• Realism — (1342 hits)
• Work song — (70 hits)
• Southpaw — (107 hits)
• Nyctipithecidae — (25 hits)
• Kim Sun-il — (3614 hits)
• Conspiracy theory — (3190 hits)
• Skeg — (12 hits)
• AK-47 — (1856 hits)
• Pangram — (372 hits)
• Glencoe, Illinois — (20 hits)
• Monmouth — (60 hits)
• 8th millennium BC — (262 hits)
• Grishnákh — (30 hits)
• Disruption — (243 hits)
• Michel de l'Hôpital — (18 hits)
• Hakko Ryu — (26 hits)
• Balearic Islands — (267 hits)
• Iran — (3001 hits)
• Saarland — (291 hits)
• Also sprach Zarathustra — (298 hits)
• Aristotle — (3260 hits)
• Ancient Olympic Games — (403 hits)
• Al-Kindi — (100 hits)
• Confederate States of America — (1812 hits)
• Patriarch of Constantinople — (237 hits)
• Adam Arkin — (28 hits)
• Hurricane Gilbert — (1487 hits)
• German language — (2751 hits)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four — (3988 hits)
• Poisoning — (34 hits)