"Steven Walling" wrote
Is it 5,000 GA and/or FA quality articles, like they profess they are going to build better than Wikipedia? Or is it 5,000 total, with lots of schlock thrown in?
It's not the former, as "Random page" reveals. Some decent if stodgy articles. Some slight. If [[cz:Middle East]] is at all typical, they are ducking some areas.
Redlinks: plenty you'd have thought someone would have filled out by now. Deficiency of vitamin gnome. It doesn't look like anyone searches the site for common spelling errors like "neccesary" or "comittee".
The quality is probably more consistent than early-model enWP. But the coverage is not really very far along the timeline, if that's a fair metric.
Charles
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f [[cz:Middle East]] is at all typical, they are ducking some areas.
It seems like they do have something of a systemic bias problem. Not that en:wiki doesn't, but I doubt it's as bad as citizendium's.
On Jan 23, 2008 11:54 AM, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Steven Walling" wrote
Is it 5,000 GA and/or FA quality articles, like they profess they are going to build better than Wikipedia? Or is
it
5,000 total, with lots of schlock thrown in?
It's not the former, as "Random page" reveals. Some decent if stodgy articles. Some slight. If [[cz:Middle East]] is at all typical, they are ducking some areas.
Redlinks: plenty you'd have thought someone would have filled out by now. Deficiency of vitamin gnome. It doesn't look like anyone searches the site for common spelling errors like "neccesary" or "comittee".
The quality is probably more consistent than early-model enWP. But the coverage is not really very far along the timeline, if that's a fair metric.
Charles
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On 23/01/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
f [[cz:Middle East]] is at all typical, they are ducking some areas.
It seems like they do have something of a systemic bias problem. Not that en:wiki doesn't, but I doubt it's as bad as citizendium's.
I expect both projects have a similar systematic bias, but it's really just a matter of priorities, rather than anything permanent. We're naturally going to prioritise articles relevant to the English-speaking world. There are far more than 5000 articles relevant to the English-speaking world, so Citizendium hasn't got around to other articles yet, Wikipedia already has all the obviously important articles that we consider high priority, so we've started on the lower priority ones.
On 23/01/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
f [[cz:Middle East]] is at all typical, they are ducking some areas. It seems like they do have something of a systemic bias problem. Not that en:wiki doesn't, but I doubt it's as bad as citizendium's.
I don't think that's really fair. When Wikipedia had 5000 articles its coverage was mostly made of holes. People are going to write what they know. They are actively addressing coverage of basic encyclopedia topics, with lists similar to ours. Also, they're tending to organise into subject-area working groups (like our wikiprojects) very early on, and new contributors are getting recruited a speciality at a time. So expect a certain fractal lumpiness to the coverage ... much like Wikipedia.
- d.