Talk:Readability

The link http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul_nation/ doesn't exist. 194.209.32.82 13:19, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Feel free to remove it yourself next time. :-) --Menchi (Talk). 09:10, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

BYU's corpus site's www.wordandphrase.info/ gives percent of the text in the first 500, 501~3000 and academic words. I suggest it be added to our links. Kdammers (talk) 05:55, 19 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Good, it's in! Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:34, 19 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

The Flesch-Kincaid grade for this article is 7. Kudos. Kdammers (talk) 15:17, 6 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

@User:ImprovedWikiImprovment: Good job, thank you:-) 85.193.228.103 (talk) 03:11, 26 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

No problem :) --IWI (talk) 07:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

No puedo ayudar Nuriagr87 (talk) 01:24, 27 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Since 1) we have a discussion of English Wikipedia's readability and 2) Simple English Wikipedia is supposed to be readable, we should have an analysis of Simple English Wikipedia. Does one exist?Kdammers (talk) 01:19, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Here are three possible sources: Is wikipedia too difficult? comparative analysis of readability of wikipedia, simple wikipedia and britannica A Jatowt, K Tanaka - Proceedings of the 21st ACM international …, 2012 - dl.acm.org … readability of content in Wikipedia and compare it to the one in Simple Wikipedia and Britannica. Next, we investigate readability of selected categories in Wikipedia. Apart from standard …

Is Simple Wikipedia simple?:–A study of readability and guidelines F Isaksson - 2018 - diva-portal.org … , simple Wikipedia has been the main source for this data. In the current study, several readability … A selection of guidelines from simple Wikipedia has also been operationalized and …

Readability of wikipedia T Lucassen, R Dijkstra, JM Schraagen - First Monday, 2012 - research.utwente.nl … This study investigates the readability of both the English and Simple English Wikipedia by means of the Flesch reading ease test (Flesch, 1948). We hypothesize that the English … Kdammers (talk) 01:45, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

sorry Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | contribs) 02:08, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

In fact, I went to Perplexity AI, which provided the following:

Below is a Python script that counts the percent of complex sentences in a text. It uses regular expressions to split text into sentences and tries to identify complex sentences by searching for common subordinating conjunctions that usually signal dependent clauses.

python

import re # List of common subordinating conjunctions SUBORDINATING_CONJUNCTIONS = [ "although", "because", "since", "unless", "when", "while", "after", "before", "even though", "if", "once", "though", "until", "whereas", "as", "so that", "provided", "in case" ] def split_into_sentences(text): # Split text on '.', '?', '!' followed by space or end of string return re.split(r'(?<=[.!?]) +', text) def is_complex_sentence(sentence): # Check for subordinating conjunction in sentence (case insensitive) sentence_lower = sentence.lower() return any(conj in sentence_lower for conj in SUBORDINATING_CONJUNCTIONS) def percent_complex_sentences(text): sentences = split_into_sentences(text) complex_count = sum(is_complex_sentence(s) for s in sentences if s.strip()) total_count = len([s for s in sentences if s.strip()]) if total_count == 0: return 0 return (complex_count / total_count) * 100 # Example usage input_text = """Although it was raining, we went outside. The ground was wet. Because we wanted to play, we ignored the weather!""" percent = percent_complex_sentences(input_text) print(f"Percent of complex sentences: {percent:.2f}%")

This script:

Splits the text into sentences using punctuation marks.

Checks each sentence for subordinating conjunctions to identify complex sentences.

Calculates and prints the percentage of complex sentences. Kdammers (talk) 19:44, 1 November 2025 (UTC)Reply