Statistics:Music, classical music and other arts projects edit

A number classical music-related projects have recently completed bannering bot runs and I thought it would be useful to post the statistics here.

Projects
(linked to article categories)
Parent Articles
(10 July 08)
Unrated Stubs Archives 'Active'
members
Music Project (no banners) Arts N/a N/a N/a 5 119
Classical Music Project Music 9,282 8,696 517 9 142
Composers Project Music 3,981 2,897 910 15 38
Contemporary Music Project Music 2,691 2,186 145 3 37
(Popular) Musicians Workgroup
(Biography Project)
[1]
Biography 51,388 326 37,297 3 90
+ Music Genres Project (Inactive?) Music 944 55 602 1 30
Related arts projects
Arts Project (no banners) Culture N/a N/a N/a 3 59
Opera Project Arts 5,048 0 1,532 66 32
Theatre Project Arts 1,880[2] 811 533 4 45
Dance Project Arts 3,701 1,283 483 1 33
+ Ballet Project Arts 2,416 876 176 0 13
  1. ^ This functions as a workgroup of the Biography project. It uses the Biography Project banner and runs nominal assessment campaigns.
  2. ^ No direct article count is possible for the Theatre project.

I will have something more to say shortly, but if anyone else wants to comment, please go ahead!

Stats:Conclusions edit

The figures show that the Opera Project (65 archives and still going strong) is significantly more active than the other arts projects. 'Tech' driven groups such as 'Biography' may have mega-bannering bot runs (523,534+ articles), and box-checking assessment drives, but they don't have a problem-solving approach to editing or any focus on quality. Other ones such as 'Music' are largely inactive and should probably follow the example of 'Arts' which does not banner articles at all, concentrating on its portal etc. --

Statistical review (7 March 08) edit

We now have 4,113 articles about opera. (These are articles displaying the Opera Project banner.)

Here are some more figures to illustrate the development of the Opera Project to date:

From The opera corpus:

  • Composers = 503 (of which 7 are still red-linked)
  • Opera titles = 1,884 articles (about 450 still red linked)

Category: Operas:

  • Opera title articles = 1,421

Figs not compiled:

Articles about people:

  • Category: Opera composers = 197 (little used category)
  • Category: Opera singers = 144 (little used category)
  • Category: Opera librettists = 129
  • Category: Opera directors = 90
  • Category: Opera managers = 81

Articles on voice types (almost all opera singers):

  • Category: Sopranos = 394
  • Category: Mezzo-sopranos = 117
  • Category: Contraltos = 27
  • Category: Castrati = 22
  • Category: Counter-tenors = 34
  • Category: Tenors = 168
  • Category: Baritones = 61
  • Category: Bass-baritones = 41
  • Category: Basses = 73

Total in voice categories above = 937

Articles about institutions etc.:

  • Category: Opera companies = 157
  • Category: Opera houses =
  • Category: Opera festivals = 48
  • Category: Opera publishers = 9
  • Category: Opera competitions = 6
  • Category: Opera organizations = 4

Technical articles about opera:

  • Category: Opera terminology = 112
  • Category: Opera genres = 33

Descendant projects:

  • Gilbert and Sullivan = 287 articles (but not all on opera)
  • Wagner = 46 articles

Conductors edit

Category:Music directors (opera) 56 under Category:Conductors

1776 under Category:Conductors by nationality

Judging by Category:Conductors by nationality there are about 1,800 or 1,900 articles on conductors. It was established that these are under the 'primary care' of the 'Classical Music' project.

Obviously many/most of the conductors have worked in the opera house.

Subpage edit

Most opera statistics derive from categories. Individual articles are tagged and then grouped according to category, producing totals. Categories appear either on the article page or on the talk page.

Talk pages edit

Category:WikiProject Opera articles gives the total number of Opera Project articles (5,000 on 4 September 2008).

Breakdowns by quality:

Article pages edit

Articles about people:

Total in people categories above =

Articles on singers

Total in voice categories above =

Articles on institutions etc.:

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Technical articles about opera:

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The opera corpus edit

Here are some more figures to illustrate the development of the Opera Project to date:

From The opera corpus:

  • Composers = 503
  • Opera titles = 1,884 articles (about 450 still red linked)

Descendant projects edit

  • Gilbert and Sullivan = 287 articles (but not all on opera)
  • Wagner = 46 articles

Stats on music projects edit

See Table showing productivity/size of the 48 music projects for information about this project and other music groups.

Project Started No. of archives No. of members
listed
Opera 2004 101 39
Albums 2002 39 451
Classical 2004 35 180
Composers 2005 33 43
Music 2003 28 201
Metal 2006 12 235
Musical Theatre 2005 12 68
Alternative music 2006 7 170
Songs 2002 7 142
Richard Wagner 2007 7 8
The Beatles 2006 6 72
Musicians 2006 6 96
Eurovision 2003 5 46
Guitarists 2006 5 45
Rock music 2006 5 101
Country music 2006 4 8
Jazz 2006 4 100
Christian music 2008 3 78
Discographies 2008 3 93
Hip hop 2006 3 34
Music genres 2004 3 17
Michael Jackson 2007 2 66
Musical instruments 2007 2 28
Australian music 2007 1 38
Canadian music 2007 1 31
Gilbert and Sullivan 2006 1 16
Irish music 2006 1 25
Kylie Minogue 2007 1 15
Music theory 2008 1 6
Punk music 2006 1 17
Record Charts 2008 1 26
U2 2007 1 4
Björk 2010 0 4
The Clash 2007 0 18
Bob Dylan 2009 0 26
Miles Davis 2011 0 5
Britney Spears 2009 0 9
Elvis Presley 2007 0 7
Beyoncé Knowles 2010 0 14
Lady Gaga 2009 0 21
Madonna 2009 0 23
Mariah Carey 2010 0 9
Progressive Rock 2009 0 27
R&B and Soul music 2005 0 25
Rolling Stones 2007 0 18
Roots music 2007 0 21
Santana 2010 0 5
The Supremes 2010 0 6