On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:55:29 +0200, Lothar Kimmeringer
<wikipedia(a)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...
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]