[WikiEN-l] Re: BBC News Online Story.

Thu Dec 15 18:10:37 UTC 2005

You're saying run the test through google translator into japanese,
then italian, then back to english? That'll produce pretty
style-neutral text :D

On 12/15/05, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, this makes it rather hard to design a good blinded study.
> Feeding all text through a dialect-simulator, or better yet an editor
> that unifies paragraph-length and word choice without altering any
> facts or much clarity, might help.  The design of a decent
> reference-work comparison study might merit a paper in itself.
>
> SJ
>
> On 12/15/05, slimvirgin at gmail.com <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/15/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ... apparently the checkers weren't even told that what
> > > they were checking came from Wikipedia so as to avoid bias :-)
> >
> > I'm afraid it would have been obvious from the writing which articles
> > were from Wikipedia. The EB is able to provide the facade of accuracy
> > because the writing is so smooth, so you don't expect to find factual
> > errors. In Wikipedia articles, you do, because the writing is often
> > very poor, so the other problems tend to jump off the page.
> >
> > Sarah
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