On 07/16/04 16:45, Neil Harris wrote:
I've just noticed the GNU diction package, which
applies a number of
"figure of merit" measures to text. Although the figures it generates
are of debatable usefulness, it might be an interesting experiment to
run it on a Wikipedia dump
Some questions:
* Do the various readability scores rise as articles are revised?
* Would it be worth creating special pages to find the best/worst
articles by reading score, so they can be copyedited, or checked to see
if they are suitable for being featured articles?
I don't know, but if there's a Web gateway where you can measure any
text you paste into a text box, there's a few fans of grammatical
overcomplexity on Wikipedia it would be useful for beating over the
head ...
- d.