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The slug in the url is how_we_found_600000_grammar_errors. Did they not get enough attention at first? How many style and grammar errors did they really find?
by taspeotis 13y ago
The slug in the url is how_we_found_600000_grammar_errors. Did they not get enough attention at first? How many style and grammar errors did they really find?
> So we manually looked at 200 of the errors, finding that 29 of the 200 errors were real errors. Projected to the whole Wikipedia (currently at 4.3 million articles), that's about 1.1 million real errors
Projections are fine, but maybe the title should be something like "How we found (probably) a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia".
- sheetjs 13y ago> "How we found (probably) a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia". Would you have clicked if that were the title? Sad part is that I suspect many people upvoted based on the title alone, without reading the article