User blog:77topaz/A not entirely pleasant situation...

I was interested to see whether we would be eligible for a Wikia Spotlight reasonably soon, considering we're a large wiki. So, I checked Special:ShortPages and Special:UncategorizedPages.

(We have more than 200 non-stub content pages and have edited community messages etc.)

First, the short pages. A wiki must have less than a fifth of its articles under 300 bytes to be eligible for a Spotlight. We have 686 (less than a tenth), so we meet that criterion.

Next, the uncategorised pages. A wiki must have no uncategorised pages to be eligible for a Spotlight. Now, here's the catch: we have 589 of 'em.

(Another wiki I've worked, on Basilicus, had 96 or so uncategorised pages when I first checked UncategorizedPages. It was a pretty daunting task reduced that to zero. But that wiki is also currently not eligible for a Spotlight - it has a similar number of under-300-bytes as us, but the total page count is 1700 or so, so more than a third of the pages are stubs.)