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

Steve Bennett wiki at stevage.com
Thu Dec 15 01:19:18 UTC 2005


>I also expect that, once the complete list of evaluated articles is
published by Nature, we will find that our articles are >longer, so that
the error rate *per sentence* might very well be lower in Wikipedia.

A few people seem to have missed this from the website:
"All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both
encyclopaedias. In a small number of cases some material, such as
reference lists, was removed to make the lengths of the entries more
similar."

Steve




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