[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

kosebamse at gmx.net wrote:
> ...regarding the quality of our work:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kosebamse/Twenty-random-pages_test
> 
> Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Kosebamse
> 
> 

Just did it myself; opened 20 "random article" tabs and checked them for
cohesiveness and such.

The "good" articles were:
 1. [[Massachusetts State Police]]
 2. [[Owl Creek Mountains]]
 3. [[Palmer Lake, Colorado]] (rambot)
 4. [[Hopewell Junction, New York]] (rambot)
 5. [[Dewey Square]]
 6. [[Robber baron (industrialist)]]

The "bad" articles were:
 1. [[Raycom National Tower]]
 2. [[Jean Paré]]
 3. [[Serge]]
 4. [[Hartogs' lemma]]
 5. [[Armus]]

The "marginal" articles were:
 1. [[D M Vasudevan]]
 2. [[Munsu Cup Stadium]]
 3. [[Donald Oliver]]
 4. [[Treaty of Passarowitz]]
 5. [[Ernest Vessiot]]

Apart from that I got two lists and two articles that I really wasn't
sure about.

So: 30% good, 25% bad, 25% marginal bordering on bad, and 20% neutral.
I'd guess that the actual proportion of "good" aritcles is somewhere
between 20 and 30 percent.

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