# Last edited on 2009-12-06 00:42:04 by stolfi
# Critical event dates for the Wikipedia article counting method or software
# Format {TIME} {YEAR} {MONTH} {DAY} {SZPRE} {SZPOS}
# where {TIME} is elapsed days since Jan 1, 2001
# and {SZPRE}, {SZPOS} are article counts before and after the event.

    44 2001 02 15        1000       1323 # Count switched from "all" to "true articles"
   164 2001 06 15        4985       6000 # Counter switched from "commapp" to "conscnt"
   378 2002 01 15       20000      23000 # Counter switched from "conscnt" to "mpacII"
   409 2002 02 15       23000      30000 # Counter switched from "mpacII"  to "spII"    
   588 2002 08 12       33333      37259 # Counter switched from "spII"    to "mpacIII" 
   681 2002 11 13       90266      90905 # Undocumented counter glitch (?)
   705 2002 12 07       94165      93301 # Undocumented counter glitch (?)
   708 2002 12 10       94165      93301 # Counter bug fixed as per User_talk:Ram-Man/archive
   720 2002 12 22       94497      96664 # Undocumented counter glitch (?)
   872 2003 05 23      120704     128475 # Counter switched from "mpacIII" to "mpac3.1" 
   
# gawk -f ../date_time.gawk --source 'BEGIN{ date_time_init(); } /^[ ]*[0-9]/{ cm=$0; gsub(/^[ 0-9]*[\#] */,"",cm); yr=0+$2; mo=0+$3; da=0+$4; sz1=0+$5; sz2=0+$6; tt=time_from_date(2001,yr,mo,da); printf "%6d %04d %02d %02d  %10d %10d # %s\n", tt,yr,mo,da,sz1,sz2,cm; next;} //{print;}'