Okay. What do you think of the wikibu tool from Switzerland? It believes that the number of editors and readers etc are indicators for the quality, or at least a basis to discuss. Kind regards Ziko
http://www.wikibu.ch/search.php?search=Frankfurter+Nationalversammlung
2014-10-25 14:44 GMT+02:00 Ditty Mathew dittyvkm@gmail.com:
Hi Ziko,
You are right. But if the content of the article is very less or having less references, less edits, less no of images, less no of links etc, articles are of poor quality. Based on these factors, to some extent we can find the quality of article.
with regards
Ditty
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Ditty,
It is difficult for me to understand your question if you are not more specific of what you consider a "poorly written article". "Poorly" can refer her to many different things, like readability, grammar, balance, statements supported by 'sources', good division of knowledge over several articles etc.
I think that software tools can only give a hint, but the judgement (how "good" is an article) can be done only by a human, on the basis of concrete criteria what is meant to be "good", and for what target group. I tend to say that some Wikipedia articles are "good" for experts but at the same time unsuitable for the general public.
E.g., a software tool can count the words per sentence, but long sentences are not necessarily good or bad by themselves.
Etc. :-)
Kind regards Ziko
2014-10-25 1:47 GMT+02:00 Joe Corneli holtzermann17@gmail.com:
On Sat, Oct 25 2014, WereSpielChequers wrote:
And just to add to the complexity of James' comments; there are some people who think that a general interest encyclopaedia should be written for a general audience. So articles with long sentences should be improved by rewriting into more but shorter sentences,
How about an even simpler version of the problem: an encyclopedia written by robots for robots. I speak, of course, of DBPedia. We could equally ask, what makes for quality entries there?
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