[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia spanks Encarta, Brockhaus

Sat Oct 2 22:52:21 UTC 2004


> From: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins at gmail.com>, wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 23:31:25 +0100
> To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia spanks Encarta, Brockhaus
> 
> 
> Hmm, something that strikes me looking at those results is that on
> several categories Wikipedia seems to do worse on the "easy" topics
> but better on the "hard" ones. I don't know if I'm just imagining it,
> and it could just be a coincidence, but that seems like an interesting
> finding (were there any graphs in the article? one could probably
> construct a graph that demonstrated patterns like that).
> 
> Maybe the tendency to write about interesting subjects leads people to
> go in depth on subjects that they can become really fascinated by
> looking into, causing the more advanced topics to get better
> articles...
> 
> -- 
> Rowan Collins BSc
> [IMSoP]