Daniel Mayer wrote:
Hm. Is there a machine readable list of all 75,000 of Britannica's articles somewhere?
Presumably on the CD version and the online version, and I would imagine they could be matched up to the print version pretty well.
If we had such a list then we could perform this analysis;
(details of analysis snipped)
Yes, that's right. If we had computerized data on what Britannica contains, we could use it to guide our work.
Then we can have a queue of many thousands of priority articles to work on.
But size is only one part of the puzzle; we also need an approval system to measure quality. We can use the list of 75,000 Britannica articles as a priority list.
That's right. I think that's a good approach.
--Jimbo