[WikiEN-l] Closer look at Nature's results: Average article size for Wikipedia: 6.80 KB; Britannica: 2.60 KB. Number of errors per 2KB for Wikipedia: 1; Britannica: 6.5

Sat Dec 17 00:35:49 UTC 2005

On 12/15/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Brian <brian0918 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Result: Average article size for Wikipedia: 6.80 KB; Britannica: 2.60
> > KB.
>
> We badly need to tighten up our writing.

Blame this on the ability to edit by section and the strong
merge/agglomeration camp. Merging two small articles into one bigger
article inevitably leads to ungainly, uneditable articles over time.