Thursday, December 15, 2005

Factual errors in Wikipedia abd Britannica: Almost a tie.

The scientific magazine "Nature" has compared 42 articles in both the encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Experts in their field were given the task to check for factual errors. To the surprise of nature, both encyclopedias were containing similar amounts of errors, at least for science related articles. Interesting... maybe traditional print is just on par with the collaborative effort of Wikis?

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