Wikipedia: Same Accuracy as Encyclopaedia Britannica
A team of expert reviewers found the science entries in the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia to have about the same accuracy as those in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, according to a Nature article that appeared Wednesday.
Of the 42 science-related entries analyzed in the study, Wikipedia averaged four inaccuracies, while Britannica averaged three. (Inaccuracies included factual errors, critical omissions, or misleading statements, according to Nature.)
Wikipedia has been under fire recently after public criticism from John Seigenthaler, a former editor at USA Today, whose Wikipedia entry had been altered to implicate him in the assassinations of John F. and Robert Kennedy.
The writer of the incorrect information came forward last week after the outcry to apologize for his prank.
posted by Fergie @ 12/14/2005 12:06:00 PM
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