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