Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/Logs/Offline reports/This is a most wanted article

True or false: there is an easy way to predict when this list will go down to a number near 0. (I always remove any live link whenever it appears, but leave all links that are still ghost links, and this allows the total to decrease.) 66.245.2.190 16:24, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC):


 * Interesting question - I think the answer is false as we don't know (and never will) is the number of articles wikipedia will contain when finished. The best I can give you are some summary numbers of 2nd August 2004


 * Number of existing articles = 563830
 * Average number of red links per article = 2.0079
 * Number of distinct articles linked to by red links = 809858


 * So, the average number of links to each non-existant article is 563830 x 2.0079 / 809858 = 1.3979. If evenly distributed, the 'top' item on the most wanted list will have at least 1.3979 links to it after 809858 / 2 = 404929 more articles are written.  You asked ;) - TB 19:12, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Less than 100 now!
Now the number of most-wanted articles just went below 100. Approximately how many will it have about a week from now?? 66.245.124.71 22:55, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Only 75 now!
Now it has gone down to 75?? At what rate will it most likely decrease?? 66.245.127.199 21:31, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

What happened??
Uh oh! Until about 4 days ago, I've spent a lot of my time removing various live links in this list. Prior to my edit, there were a total of 175. Now, however, 4 days passed and there are still no live links to remove. What happened?? 66.32.255.239 21:57, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * It might be that Most wanted articles was updated and people are working from there now. - SimonP 21:15, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

10 straight days now!
Now it has been no less than 10 days and none of the remaining 132 links that existed then have become live. What happened?? Georgia guy 00:07, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)