[WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

[David Gerard]

On 30 November 2010 11:11, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> I can agree that having proper prose can be a positive feature, but if
> all the information that a reader might want is in the info box little
> is accomplished by turning that information into fine prose. The
> structured format may indeed be more efficient.


Look at the articles on US towns. You'll still see slabs of Rambot
text, where US Census data was put into machine prose form. And in
hindsight, that should have been the genesis of the infobox - the data
is *better* as a table than as prose.


- d.