Category talk:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter
Article parameter or title parameter?[edit]
I just edited a few of the articles because I was bored, but was initially misled by this category's name. Admittedly the instructions tell me to add "title=xxx", but I at first added "article=xxx" on the basis of the name. Can the category name be easily changed? Should it? David Brooks (talk) 21:36, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi David Brooks, It can be done but it would be a bot job as there are as I write this 9,466 articles that would have to be changed. The point is that I think article parameter is fine as the article parameter can be either wstitle= if there is an article on Wikisource (and one day all of them will be there) or title= if the source is somewhere else. If we were to change the name what name would you want to use? -- PBS (talk) 12:10, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- (ping PBS) Fair enough. If you're still reading, another question (which I also posed on Talk:Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition). I came across one article, Abbas I of Egypt, which has both a 1911 and a Wikisource1911enc template. By adding wstitle to the first, I generate two copies of the same link in close proximity. What's your feeling about this? I'm fine with it, but should the guidance be extended to ask for both changes in the case of 1911 articles that don't have a Wikisource1911enc? David Brooks (talk) 16:35, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi David Brooks, It can be done but it would be a bot job as there are as I write this 9,466 articles that would have to be changed. The point is that I think article parameter is fine as the article parameter can be either wstitle= if there is an article on Wikisource (and one day all of them will be there) or title= if the source is somewhere else. If we were to change the name what name would you want to use? -- PBS (talk) 12:10, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Number of articles over time[edit]
Table showing the number of articles in this category over time.
| Date | No. | Date | No. | Date | No. | Date | No. |
| 15 Nov 2013 | 9466 | 3 Jan 2016 | 6690 | 1 Jan 2017 | 4682 | 1 Jan 2018 | 961 |
| 31 Jan 2015 | 8001 | 2 Feb 2016 | 6342 | 2 Feb 2017 | 4612 | 1 Feb 2018 | 911 |
| 15 Mar 2015 | 7947 | 1 Mar 2016 | 6234 | 1 Mar 2017 | 4527 | 1 Mar 2018 | 808 |
| 4 Apr 2015 | 7816 | 3 Apr 2016 | 6027 | 1 Apr 2017 | 4399 | 1 Apr 2018 | 660 |
| 1 May 2015 | 7606 | 1 May 2016 | 5902 | 1 May 2017 | 4094 | 1 May 2018 | 539 |
| 1 Jun 2015 | 7485 | 1 Jun 2016 | 5790 | 1 Jun 2017 | 3616 | 1 Jun 2018 | 364 |
| 1 Jul 2015 | 7370 | 1 Jul 2016 | 5542 | 1 Jul 2017 | 3107 | 1 Jul 2018 | 246* (316) |
| 1 Aug 2015 | 7260 | 1 Aug 2016 | 5338 | 1 Aug 2017 | 2388 | 1 Aug 2018 | 142 |
| 1 Sep 2015 | 7151 | 1 Sep 2016 | 5274 | 1 Sep 2017 | 1632 | 1 Sep 2018 | 23 |
| 5 Oct 2015 | 7030 | 1 Oct 2016 | 5158 | 1 Oct 2017 | 1174 | 1 Oct 2018 | 23 |
| 1 Nov 2015 | 6924 | 1 Nov 2016 | 5021 | 1 Nov 2017 | 1083 | 2 Nov 2018 | 0 |
| 2 Dec 2015 | 6790 | 1 Dec 2016 | 4889 | 1 Dec 2017 | 1034 |
Figures in italics are interpolated.
* Totals up to July 2018 as reported by the approximate total on the Category page. The actual number (by adding totals on each page) was 70 more.
The 'approximate' total was accurate once the actual number was under 200.