User blog:Mark Otaris/Detailed analysis of the place page requirements

I have been asked by PeterPeter5000 for my ideas about what should qualify a place to have an article on this wiki. First, I thought we should make the place visit criterion go up higher over time as place visits get more and more visits, but I realized that we also needed to bump it higher because it was ridiculously low right now. The best way to do that without causing a major change on the wiki suddenly would be to do it progressively: therefore, we could make the place visit criterion go up higher in time a little faster than it would need to to keep up with the place visit numbers increasing on the ROBLOX website, until we achieve a reasonable amount, at which point we'll slow down the increase and just make it go up at the speed it needs to to keep up with the place visit increases on ROBLOX.

However, I realized that while this was the best idea for the place visit criterion, it didn't tell us how fast exactly we should increase the criterion and to which point. I have therefore decided to use a bot on the ROBLOX website to calculate some statistics.

Statistics
First, please note that all of these statistics are entirely accurate, with a margin of error of 5, meaning that the actual numbers may be higher or lower than the results displayed here of a value of 5 at most. This is due to the way the statistics were calculated by the bot (it parsed the popular ranking on the games page by rows, and rows have 6 places in them, but it looked at the last one so the margin of error is of 6 - 1, therefore 5). All these statistics are sufficiently accurate to be relied upon.

In the table below, the first column is a range of place visits, while the second column is the number of places whose number of place visits belongs in that range. The second row of the table indicates that there are 432 places on ROBLOX with more than 1,000,000 place visits. The third row indicates that there are 48 places on ROBLOX with more than 900,000 place visits but less than 1,000,000 place visits. The fourth row indicates that there are 72 places on ROBLOX with more than 800,000 place visits but less than 900,000 place visits.