--- Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 12:45 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 12/5/07, Mathias Schindler
mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow's issue of Stern Magazin (think about it as
a slightly softer
version of Newsweek or TIME, more or less) has
Wikipedia on its cover.
They compared 50 articles from de.wp to the 15-volume
edition of the
Brockhaus publishing house to each other (the test
was done by
experts, of course :) ) and posted the results in a
press release,
pointing to the article: score
Congratulations to the German Wikipedia community for
this historic
achievement! And all that without stable versions! ;-)
With stable versions, we could obviously have gotten a 1,0 score :)
Erik states that the report especially highlights the project's coverage of current events. I still fear that once the stable versions feature is introduced and has been in use for a year or two there will be many pages with changes submitted months previously that are still not visible to readers. That may well adversely affect the outcome of any attempt to measure a project's coverage of current events.
-Gurch