There is research comparing wikipedia to encyclopaedia britannica which concludes that wikipedia has more "left code words" per article than EB.
However
a) this research is very US-centric
b) the paper also concludes that code word per word is pretty much equal between the two, wikipedia just has longer articles
However a) this research is very US-centric b) the paper also concludes that code word per word is pretty much equal between the two, wikipedia just has longer articles
1. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-experts-or-collective-intellig...