User blog comment:Yatalu/Your wiki's average page size/@comment-5558012-20140909132732/@comment-452-20140912133212

I definitely agree.

Given that one of the only reasons I've ever found in favour of using interwiki links has been "Shorter wikitext", it would appear that keeping page-size low is a goal on some wikis.

As with all metrics, deliberately aiming high or low can be easily achieved.
 * Number of articles? It's easy to create pages for air and water.
 * I've seen some wikis duplicate entire wikipedia articles, simply because the subject is mentioned once.
 * Page size? It's easy to not use templates, include completely irrelevant information... or copy wikipedia articles.
 * Unfortunately, I'm in favour of adding full transcripts, or at least a lot of quotes, which has the side effect of massively increasing the raw page size. I wasn't trying to inflate the average, but I did.
 * Raw edits? It's easy to make lots of "valuable" small edits instead of 1 large quality edit.
 * When looking for admins, anyone who says "I've got 100 edits!" when they've only edited 5 articles... shouldn't be an admin any time soon.

Still, metrics are always interesting to look at.

will give the average edits per page, if anyone is interested in that.

edit: Of course, that's "all pages", not just content pages. Unfortunately, I don't know of any.

might be closer, but will higher than it should be.