Charles Matthews explains how Wikipedia works

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Charles Matthews explains how Wikipedia works

Unread post by Poetlister » Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:41 pm

There's the old DREWS acronym from How Wikipedia Works, to which I'd now add T for traffic. In other words there are six factors that an experienced human would use to analyse quality, looking in particular for warning signs.

*D = Discussion: crunch the talk page (20 archives = controversial, while no comments indicates possible neglect)
*R = WikiProject rating, FWIW, if there is one.
*E = Edit history. A single editor, or essentially only one editor with tweaking, is a warning sign. (Though not if it is me, obviously)
*W = Writing. This would take some sort of text analysis. Work to do here. Includes detection of non-standard format, which would suggest neglect by experienced editors.
*S = Sources. Count footnotes and so on.
*T = Traffic. Pages at 100 hits per month are not getting many eyeballs. Warning sign. Very high traffic is another issue.

Seems to me that there is enough to bite on, here.

Charles
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Tech ... diauk-l.29

So now we know, especially the T point.
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly" - Nietzsche

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