On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:55:29 +0200, Lothar Kimmeringer wikipedia@kimmeringer.de wrote:
Here's the list (replicated by hand). The words are kept in German. You should switch to a non-proportional font.
The first number in the table is the number of characters, the second number the qualitiy (1 is not good, 5 is best, 0 means not existant).
EP: Encarta Pro BH: Brockhaus WP: Wikipedia
<snip; like I'm going to quote that lot back to the list!>
Hmm, something that strikes me looking at those results is that on several categories Wikipedia seems to do worse on the "easy" topics but better on the "hard" ones. I don't know if I'm just imagining it, and it could just be a coincidence, but that seems like an interesting finding (were there any graphs in the article? one could probably construct a graph that demonstrated patterns like that).
Maybe the tendency to write about interesting subjects leads people to go in depth on subjects that they can become really fascinated by looking into, causing the more advanced topics to get better articles...