Biocrawler:What is an article
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
- See also: Biocrawler:FAQ
A Biocrawler article is defined as a page that has encyclopedic or almanac-like information on it ("almanac-like" being lists, timelines, tables or charts).
See Special:Allpages for a list of all Biocrawler articles and Biocrawler:Statistics for statistics on Biocrawler and its growth.
An "article" does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:
- the Biocrawler namespace for material about meta subjects related to Biocrawler (example, Biocrawler:Statistics and its talk page, Biocrawler talk:Statistics);
- the talk namespaces for discussing what the content of pages should be (for example, Talk:Mathematics)
- the special namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand (see Biocrawler:Special pages);
- the user namespace for pages that are used by individual Biocrawler writers (example, User:Jimbo Wales).
- the image namespace which is used for describing and attributing images (example, Image:Great Horned Owl.USFWS.jpg)
- the MediaWiki namespace which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Biocrawler (example MediaWiki:Disclaimers)
In the Monobook (default) skin, the type of page is shown in the currently selected tab and non-article pages have a light blue background. In the Classic skin, pages from these namespaces are displayed on a yellow background to distinguish them from pages in the article namespace.
But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; most notably:
- the Main Page;
- thousands of "stub" pages that may not be considered real articles yet;
- thousands of disambiguation pages which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
- thousands of "redirect" pages which are used to re-route one page to another page;
The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregard Stubs and Stublists (lists templates with little or no content).
See Biocrawler:Naming conventions to learn how we title articles and Biocrawler:protected pages for a list of pages that have been made read-only to non-Biocrawler Administrators.
Categories of articles
- Category:Articles to be merged
- Category:Article names with other uses
- Category:Articles currently being edited
- Category:Articles that need to be wikified
- Category:Articles to be moved
- Category:Biocrawler requested images (Category:Articles needing images)
- Category:Biocrawler sources
- Category:Stubs
- Category:Articles to be expanded
- Category:Incomplete lists
- Category:Pages needing attention
See also
External links
- Current number of articles (http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm)bg:Уикипедия:Статия
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