Brúkari:Steinbach

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Ten article test

For personal use, but it might be useful for anyone. I visit ten random pages and check them for size. This is one way to check a Wikipedia's real size and quality. Article count becomes very meaningless if a Wikipedia consists mostly of bot-created geography pages, or of many 30-pages-a-day kind of stubs.

On January 17 2018, around 18:30 CET, the Faroese Wikipedia had 12,668 articles. I called for ten random articles; this yielded the following:

Page	Size (bytes)	Size (words)	Last human edit (dd-mm-yyyy)	Faeroese topic?
Henning Thomsen	408	30	9-5-2011	yes
331	145	0	13-4-2014*	no
Marius	1,889	205	21-8-2017	yes
Anker Jørgensen	7,577	654	14-5-2016	no
Dánjal Pauli Danielsen (1919-2010)	1,879	168	25-5-2016	yes
Adam Yates	4,192	98	18-7-2016*	no
Hetland	8,351	981	12-7-2016	no
Bjarne Riis	2,134	49	25-4-2016*	no
Bárður Jákupsson	4,042	456	13-12-2013	yes
Afrika	5,270	876	10-5-2015	no

(An asterisk means that the last human edit was either the creation of the page or some correction in the same session.)

Conclusion: The Faroese Wikipedia is doing quite well. Article length fluctuates greatly, but there is only one empty box. Articles generally get regular updates (which are, of course, not equally necessary for all pages). There is no evidence of massive stub creation by article bots. The project covers the Faroe Islands quite well, but does look beyong them (albeit mostly to Denmark proper). Its main problem is its small community. Just about all recent edits seem to have come from one user, Brúkari:EileenSanda. This user is, however, doing a wonderful job as an all-round encyclopedian. I can only hope she persists in her great work, so that in the end some others will join.