[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

[geni]

On 15 February 2011 01:17, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I therefore award the Wikipedia class C:
>
> I award it an F minus, based on using it to do some research today on
> the topic of the Nebra sky disc (i.e. as a starting point to looking
> elsewhere, but I was hoping that the Wikipedia article would be a good
> starting point):
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk

I'm not sure that judging a project with 3 million articles based on a
sample of just one article a great idea.

>
> I'm tempted to ask whether the "system" worked here or not. I
> understand that there is always a chance that you come across an
> article in a poor state during editing, but quite why there wasn't a
> proper reaction here, I don't know.

I'd say it's hit the wall of text problem beyond a certain size unless
there is an individual really prepared to look after the article there
is a tendency towards messiness.



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geni