[Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity

[Craig Franklin]

Hi,

You show me a way of quantitatively comparing two Wikis using an
automated process, and I'll show you a language or Wiki that will break
it.

Cheers,
Craig Franklin

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> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:02:17 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity
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> Berto 'd Sera wrote:
> 
> > 100% true. Just compound words in german may make a great 
> > difference towards English, in piemontese we thousands of 'L L' 
> > n' 'n that would count as words and are but pronominal 
> > particles, plus we usually say everything twice (double subject, 
> > double locatives, etc).
> 
> The size of the compressed article dumps would be a better 
> comparison then, because the same content would still occupy the 
> same space after all redundancies have been removed.
> 
>