Evaluations of articles proliferate
In the aftermath of The Guardian's effort at rating Wikipedia articles (see archived story), a number of new evaluations sprang up this past week. Both Wikipedia editors and outside sources took stabs at critiquing the quality of the content.
Last Monday, the South African newspaper the Mail & Guardian published a story online in which it ran a very similar evaluation to its British cousin, asking a variety of experts to rate specific articles on a scale ranging from 0 to 10. The articles chosen were on subjects specifically related to South Africa. Scores this time were slightly better, mostly because the lowest rating was 2/10 for Media in South Africa (as opposed to 0/10 for Haute couture), and the articles on the national rugby teams actually received perfect grades.