Note how Simple Wikipedia's first paragraph on the Sun doesn't even require footnotes and sourcing. The planets, including Earth, go around it. When the Sun is not in the sky it is night. It is seen in the sky and gives light to the Earth. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others. Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. Here's the first paragraph from Wikipedia's entry on the Sun: Is it for people under the age 14, or just a simpler version of complex articles? "There's never been a clear idea for it, other than a much simpler read." "The Simple Wikipedia doesn't have a high standing in the Wikipedia community," he said, adding that its purpose was never fully established. Reading is easier on Simple Wikipedia, but Lih doesn't consider it useful to compare the two. The thing to understand about Wikipedia, is that "it's always been a community of eventualism," Lih told NBC News - citing the Wikipedia community's self-described tendency to focus "on the eventual value of Wikipedia in the long-term rather than the immediate value." He pointed to the study called out in the November 2012 Wikimedia Research Newsletter, where it was compared to similar findings. "Curious but not unexpected," is how Andrew Lih, author of " The Wikipedia Revolution," reacted to the study's results. The rogues' gallery of difficult reads, according to the research team, includes entries under Computing, Economics, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, and the worst of the worst, Biology and Chemistry.Įleven years into its existence - with more than 4.1 million articles in its English version alone and 23 million worldwide - Wikipedia has become in some ways more of a creative outlet for its contributing know-it-alls than a resource for the the average human looking to lose his or her ignorance.
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