User:Steinsky/100 sample

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.