Size matters

Joshua E. Blumenstock
2008 Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '08  
Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia", now contains over two million English articles, and is widely regarded as a highquality, authoritative encyclopedia. Some Wikipedia articles, however, are of questionable quality, and it is not always apparent to the visitor which articles are good and which are bad. We propose a simple metric -word countfor measuring article quality. In spite of its striking simplicity, we show that this metric significantly outperforms the more complex methods described in related work.
doi:10.1145/1367497.1367673 dblp:conf/www/Blumenstock08 fatcat:vkpvhbhsmrgzzpsxp77i74txsm