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===Cultural significance=== | ===Cultural significance=== | ||
Chalo Chatu's content can also been used in academic studies, books, conferences, and court cases. | Chalo Chatu's content can also been used in academic studies, books, conferences, and court cases. | ||
==Readability issues== | |||
Each Chalo Chatu article is in a process of evolution and is likely to continue growing. Other editors will add to articles when you are done with them. Chalo Chatu has practically unlimited storage space; however, long articles may be more difficult to read, navigate, and comprehend. | |||
An article longer than one or two pages when printed should be divided into sections to ease navigation. For most long articles, division into sections is natural anyway. Readers of the mobile version of Chalo Chatu can be helped by ensuring that sections are not so long or so numerous as to impede navigation. | |||
A page of about 30 kB to 50 kB of readable prose, which roughly corresponds to 4,000 to 10,000 words, takes between 30 and 40 minutes to read at average speed , which is right on the limit of the average concentration span of 40 to 50 minutes (information about a given page's size can be viewed by visiting the page and then clicking on the "Page information" link in the | |||
left column). At 50 kB and above it may be beneficial to move some sections to other articles | |||
and replace them with summaries. Comprehension of standard texts at average reading speed is around 65%. | |||
Articles that cover particularly technical subjects should, in general, be shorter than | |||
articles on less technical subjects. While expert readers of such articles may accept complexity and length provided the article is well written, the general reader requires clarity and | |||
conciseness. There are times when a long or very long article is unavoidable, though its complexity should be minimized. Readability is a key criterion. | |||
==== Readable prose ==== | |||
Readable prose is the main body of the text, excluding material such as footnotes and reference sections ("see also", "external links", bibliography, etc.), diagrams and images, tables and lists, Wikilinks and external URLs, and formatting and mark-up. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
