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This means, that over 26% of list items start with a letter immediately after the bullet, and over 57% of 1st level list items didn't have a space after the bullet. This is an enexpectedly high result.
This means, that over 26% of list items start with a letter immediately after the bullet, and over 57% of 1st level list items didn't have a space after the bullet. This is an unexpectedly high result.
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I didn't mean to count the average length of the entries, but I used {{{wc}}} without any parameters, so this data came for free. I found it interesting that spaceless items are on average longer than the "spaced" ones. I went to several randomly picked pages, and checked their history. It turns out that the list items wereinitially paragraphs, but somebody decided that they look better with a dot in front of them, so he went trough the source and added an asterisk at the beginning of every paragraph. I don't know in how many cases it was what happened, but one is sure -- the experienced users will use the minimal markup that works -- especially when reformatting existing text.
I didn't mean to count the average length of the entries, but I used {{{wc}}} without any parameters, so this data came for free. I found it interesting that spaceless items are on average longer than the "spaced" ones. I went to several randomly picked pages, and checked their history. It turns out that the list items were initially paragraphs, but somebody decided that they look better with a dot in front of them, so he went through the source and added an asterisk at the beginning of every paragraph. I don't know in how many cases it was what happened, but one is sure -- the experienced users will use the minimal markup that works -- especially when reformatting existing text.
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5 19-Oct-2007 00:40 2.226 kB 207.171.180.101 to previous Fixed spelling
4 19-Oct-2007 00:39 2.225 kB 207.171.180.101 to previous | to last Added missing space between words
3 09-Apr-2007 17:34 2.224 kB 85.181.45.202 to previous | to last enexpectedly -> unexpectedly
2 07-Mar-2007 10:13 2.224 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last research about bullet lists and spaces on Wikipedia
1 07-Mar-2007 10:11 2.114 kB RadomirDopieralski to last research about bullet lists and spaces on Wikipedia
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