[Web4lib] Wikipedia vs Britannica

[Sloan, Bernie]

Interesting follow-up from today's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03comm.html 

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: Sloan, Bernie 
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:21 PM
To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Wikipedia vs Britannica

The following interesting item was forwarded to me by a colleague
(Sharon Stoerger):

Giles, Jim. Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. Nature. Published
online: 14 December 2005; | doi:10.1038/438900a
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html 

"Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the
accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds."

Bernie Sloan
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