[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia spanks Encarta, Brockhaus

[Andre Engels]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 01:46:25 -0400
  Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Brockhaus "must concede defeat" to Wikipedia
>
>c't, the popular german magazine for computer engineering, just
>released a study they conducted of the three major digital
>encyclopedias in germany -- Brockhaus, Encarta, and (most recently)
>Wikipedia.  They tested the encyclopedias on breadth, depth, and
>comprehensibility of content, ease of searching, and quality of
>multimedia content.
>
>The content test was the most elaborate : first they divided content
>in three broad fields, Science, Society, and Culture.  They further
>subdivided these into 22 total subject areas, and within each subject
>selected an easy, a moderate, and a difficult topic.  They then
>searched for the best matching article (and supplementary content) in
>the encyclopedia.
>
>Finally, they brought in experts in each broad field who rated the
>articles from 1 to 5, based on technical correctness and completeness
>of the texts, and on their comprehensibility.  Once this was finished,
>the results were totalled at each level of conceptual difficulty,
>within each broad field, and across all 66 topics.

I'd be interested to see this list of 66 topics and what scores the three 
candidates got. Also - did they use the German or the English Wikipedia?

Andre Engels