[Web4lib] Wikipedia vs Britannica

[Patricia F Anderson]

And an interesting piece from today's Nature about Wikiped.

Wiki's wild world
Researchers should read Wikipedia cautiously and amend it 
enthusiastically.
http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eWH50BhRvy0Ch0rVI0Ec

  -- Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Sloan, Bernie wrote:

> 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."
>
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