[WikiEN-l] Nature compares science coverage of Wikipedia andEncyclopaedia Britannica

charles matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Wed Dec 14 19:37:11 UTC 2005


 "Bob Mellish" wrote

>That's a rather good showing for Wikipedia. As soon as the issue is
available at Nature's webpage, I'll look for more details.

Hang on, let's be scientific.  If EB consolidates articles more than WP, 
because WP uses hypertext freely to break things up, then 'per article' is 
not necessarily a good metric.  And 'per 10000 words' would say more.

Charles 





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