The kids open dictionary has produced many interesting statistics to examine. The first stage of producing a word list led to a look at how many words are in a “good” dictionary, how many words have gone out of common usage, and how many new ones have come in.
Now that our word list is relatively set and people have been adding definitions for a month or so, I’ve been eager to see numbers on how many words have been defined (at least as a start; the ultimate metric will be how many are complete and quality-checked or frozen). I’ve been simultaneously eager and afraid to see this number as I’ve tried to figure out how long it might take to produce a high-quality dictionary for kids through mass collaboration (and if I’ll live that long).
Well, the counter is up, and in just a little over a month, we already have definitions for over 7% of our words. That is so exciting (and makes me hopeful that our goal will be accomplished sooner rather than later).
Thanks to everyone who has contributed, and if you haven’t, stop by, and add a definition or two.