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Numerical relevants

It would be useful to have the values of which score means what in terms of reading level (eg. scores of x-y means a 6th grade reading level) Got to this page from Google Docs - which gives this score (along with a few others) for any document you write. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.206.33.69 ( talkcontribs) 17:21, 23 September 2007

It would be useful to give some sort of age guidance too. I suspect the majority of the world did not go to a U.S. grade school, and probably haven't a clue what 8th grade means... -Nveitch —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nveitch ( talkcontribs) 01:29, 29 January 2008 (UTC) reply

I added correspondence between grade and age as per Nveitch's request. 71.175.125.151 ( talk) 15:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC) reply

I cleaned up the paragraph attempting to relate ages to level. It contained sentences that made no sense. I would like a reference however for the level. Promelior ( talk) 05:55, 14 December 2009 (UTC) reply

ARI of this page

While calculating the ARI using two online tools [1] [2], I noticed that both of these tests regarded the periods in 'U.S.' as full stops. With the abbreviation appearing four times, a score of 7 rather than 14 is produced. I suspect this is poor coding on the part of the implementers, rather than the test itself. I stripped the periods to ensure that other readers will obtain similar results. —  Nahum Reduta [ talk| contribs] 04:22, 30 December 2009 (UTC) reply

btw, the same tests give my above entry an ARI of 8.68 and 8.30 respectively, again with the periods stripped from 'U.S.' —  Nahum Reduta [ talk| contribs] 04:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC) reply
I used the linked online readability test on the article itself (copy+paste text without formula, not website test). Results:
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
  • Gunning Fog index : 15.39
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text :
  • Coleman Liau index : 12.07
  • Flesch Kincaid Grade level : 14.16
  • ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 13.13
  • SMOG : 14.87
That's terrible. Grade 12, the highest US secondary school grade before college, corresponds to the reading level of a 17 year-old. -- Atlasowa ( talk) 09:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC) reply

How do I run an ARI test on a Wikipedia article?

I want to demonstrate how to improve readability, and need to be able to run a PRE-editing test, and a POST-editing test. I specifically want to use this wikipedia-approved readability test. I had hoped to get "how to" information from this page. Can anyone tell me how to do such a PRE and POST test? PlanetCare ( talk) 02:50, 20 March 2017 (UTC) reply

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Numerical relevants

It would be useful to have the values of which score means what in terms of reading level (eg. scores of x-y means a 6th grade reading level) Got to this page from Google Docs - which gives this score (along with a few others) for any document you write. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.206.33.69 ( talkcontribs) 17:21, 23 September 2007

It would be useful to give some sort of age guidance too. I suspect the majority of the world did not go to a U.S. grade school, and probably haven't a clue what 8th grade means... -Nveitch —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nveitch ( talkcontribs) 01:29, 29 January 2008 (UTC) reply

I added correspondence between grade and age as per Nveitch's request. 71.175.125.151 ( talk) 15:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC) reply

I cleaned up the paragraph attempting to relate ages to level. It contained sentences that made no sense. I would like a reference however for the level. Promelior ( talk) 05:55, 14 December 2009 (UTC) reply

ARI of this page

While calculating the ARI using two online tools [1] [2], I noticed that both of these tests regarded the periods in 'U.S.' as full stops. With the abbreviation appearing four times, a score of 7 rather than 14 is produced. I suspect this is poor coding on the part of the implementers, rather than the test itself. I stripped the periods to ensure that other readers will obtain similar results. —  Nahum Reduta [ talk| contribs] 04:22, 30 December 2009 (UTC) reply

btw, the same tests give my above entry an ARI of 8.68 and 8.30 respectively, again with the periods stripped from 'U.S.' —  Nahum Reduta [ talk| contribs] 04:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC) reply
I used the linked online readability test on the article itself (copy+paste text without formula, not website test). Results:
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
  • Gunning Fog index : 15.39
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text :
  • Coleman Liau index : 12.07
  • Flesch Kincaid Grade level : 14.16
  • ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 13.13
  • SMOG : 14.87
That's terrible. Grade 12, the highest US secondary school grade before college, corresponds to the reading level of a 17 year-old. -- Atlasowa ( talk) 09:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC) reply

How do I run an ARI test on a Wikipedia article?

I want to demonstrate how to improve readability, and need to be able to run a PRE-editing test, and a POST-editing test. I specifically want to use this wikipedia-approved readability test. I had hoped to get "how to" information from this page. Can anyone tell me how to do such a PRE and POST test? PlanetCare ( talk) 02:50, 20 March 2017 (UTC) reply


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