[Foundation-l] Tragical dynamics: that run for the number of articles

Sun Jun 29 09:07:48 UTC 2008

Who's to say some bot-created articles can't be useful?

Some may not be very useful, but others are very helpful.

Mark

2008/6/29 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/29 Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose a quality metric: The difference in rank
>>> between the article count and the compressed database size.
>>
>> I think this is a good metric, especially because it's a relative
>> metric (since it's effectively comparing projects against their peers
>> to see how mature they are).
>>
>> Someone earlier was discussing article sizes, so I hacked up a script
>> to graph the distribution of article sizes:
>>
>> http://www.toolserver.org/~thebainer/articlesizes/
>>
>
> Yes, but size of avarage article can be easily icreased artifically
> by bot-creation of inofoboxes, navigation templates, long list of
> categories and interwiki etc.
>
> Take a look for example on:
>
> http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmisartan
>
> infobox is around 90% of its content. Blame Polish Wikipedia that it
> allows creating such articles, I would agree with you :-) The article
> was created by human not by bot.
>
> Higher average size of articles in any Wikipedia can be easilly
> achieved just by creating bot-only articles with plenty of statstical
> data, huge infobox and several navigation templates. See example, I
> have already shown:
>
> http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%81_%D1%96_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8F
>
> Would be nice to have a tool comparing the "real" size of articles, by
> which I mean counting size of free text only - without all templates
> and other non-text stuff.
>
>
> --
> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
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