Readability

Leah Borovoi from the infinity labs has analyzed the readability of 1999 Wikipedia vital articles about people in ten European languages using the Flesch Readability formula.^[1] In order to compare between languages, the result of the formula was normalized within each language. In the table below, you may see 15 sub-categories of the general category people, and 10 European languages. Higher numbers colored in green mean high readability, whereas negative numbers colored in red mean low readability. In all languages the least readable sub-categories are scientists and philosophers, while the most readable sub-categories are sports figures and entertainers. Military leaders are relatively more readable in German, French and Swedish, but less readable in Italian and in Spanish.

The table below shows the average number of words per article in different sub-categories of "People" category in ten European languages. Green color signals longer articles, while red color signals shorter articles.

References

^ Flesch, Rudolf. "How to Write Plain English". University of Canterbury. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.

[1] Flesch, Rudolf. "How to Write Plain English". University of Canterbury. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.

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