the wub wrote
Also fom the article: "He said the encyclopedia had set a benchmark of a 20-minute turnaround to update the site with user-submitted edits to existing articles"
That'll probably be faster than us once flagged revisions is switched on (compare with the German expeiment, where backlogs are up to 3 weeks) which should make for an interesting role reversal. (I don't want to derail this thread into arguing about flaggedrevs, just thought it was amusing)
Certainly that benchmark is impressive. I have a personal figure of about ten minutes, for "how long it takes to add a new researched fact to enWP". Assuming only this is a fact-checking exercise based on Google, it would be quite something for EB to sustain this 24/7. Of course it may be deduced some other way, for example telling employees that they are supposed to vet two dozen submissions in a working day, and rather assuming a good match of employees to time zones. But in any case there would be a question-mark over how things scale. Presumably they are not intending a big expansion of coverage on current affairs?
Charles