User:Taxman/Article quality review

A number of surveys of article quality have been done by Wikipedia editors. All I've seen so far attempted to get an idea of the percentage of quality articles among a set of randomly chosen articles. The problem with this is that it includes new articles which are on average shorter and of poorer quality. What I didn't see was an attempt to measure average article quality improvement for existing articles. I plan to focus on articles that have existed for 2 years or more to see if I can confirm the assumption that articles improve substantially over time.

As of July 30, 2006, there are about 1.28 million articles, while the 300,000 article threshhold was reach on July 7, 2004. Therefore a quarter is an upper bound for the number of articles have existed for 2 years, but factoring in deletions the number should be at least somewhat less than that. The following are the first 100 results from the random article function.


 * , April 3, 2005, 2.2KB, 0 images, 4 edits, 1 ref -EB 1911, imported from 1911 EB; little changed
 * , January 27, 2006, 2.6KB, 0 images, 6 edits, 1 ref, decent information but not smoothly structured
 * , August 12, 2003, 21.7KB, 4 images, >50 edits, 1 ref, Imported from PD LOC text - Cleanup tag since June 2006
 * , July 22, 2004, .6KB, 0 images, 18 edits, 0 refs, 3 sentences
 * , January 22, 2006, 1.8KB, 1 image, 13 edits, 0 refs, tagged with
 * , June 26, 2006, 6.6KB, 1 image, 7 edits, 0 refs
 * , December 2, 2001, 34.4 KB, 1 image, >50 edits, 12 citations, pretty good looking article
 * , November 28, 2003, 7.1KB, 0 images, >50 edits, 0 refs, .8KB when started; decent looking though POV is fairly obvious
 * , June 13, 2006, .5KB, 0 images, 2 edits, 0 refs, 3 sentences
 * , July 22, 2006, 1.2KB, 0 images, 1 edit, 0 refs


 * , January 31, 2006, .8KB, 0 images, 6 edits, 0 refs, stub; 2 sentences and a table mostly blank
 * , June 3, 2005, 2.3KB, 1 image, 24 edits, 0 refs, decent looking
 * , February 29, 2004, 4.8KB, 0 images, >50 edits, 0 refs
 * , August 2, 2003, 4.2KB, 1 image, >50 edits, 0 refs, reasonably well structured
 * , February 24, 2006, 1.4KB, 0 images, 18 edits, 0 refs, but was apparently taken from the PD link
 * , December 31, 2005, .8KB, 0 images, edits, 0 refs, stub
 * , December 12, 2005, .5KB, 0 images, 4 edits, 0 refs, stub; 3 sentences
 * , January 13, 2006, 1.1KB, 0 images, 12 edits, 0 refs, choppy prose structure (since improved slightly)
 * , July 21, 2006, 2.7KB, 0 images, 1 edit, 2 refs, most of the article is about the situation in general; is an article on each GITMO detainee warranted?
 * , February 24, 2002, 5.9KB, 1 image, >50 edits, 1 ref, fairly complete with a couple tables and a good image


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 * , October 29, 2004, KB, images, 27 edits, 0 refs
 * , June 12, 2005, KB, images, 15 edits, 0 refs
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 * ,, KB, images, edits, 15 citations
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 * ,, KB, images, edits, 0 refs, stub; one sentence
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