On 1/31/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This compares
reasonably well with the results of my survey
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carnildo/The_100): about
15% of all articles are sourced. My methodology was a little
different, as I counted anything in a "references" section as
a reference, while inline links were collectively counted as
one reference.
I'm still working on a survey of biography articles, but
preliminary results are that slightly fewer biographies are
sourced, but ones that are sourced tend to have more sources.
Nice! Are you interested in expanding it a bit, perhaps to include
grades in various categories like adherence to MoS, PoV etc? It would be
very interesting to get a few people together and regularly take samples
of 1000 or so articles, to see whether things are getting better, worse
etc.
Nice is right; I love this discussion. We should start a proper
article improvement project, run spot checks like this every few
weeks, highlight 'good articles' and not just FAs, have regular ref
and stub fixing contests...
SJ