[WikiEN-l] Re: BBC News Online Story.

Thu Dec 15 13:43:13 UTC 2005

"Gordon Joly" <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote in 
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> Last Updated: Thursday, 15 December 2005, 10:42 GMT
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> Wikipedia survives research test
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> The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the 
> Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.
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> Full article at:
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm

That's pretty neat, especially considering that the BBC's own H2G2 could be 
considered a rival to Wikipedia in certain circles.

Does anybody know if the Nature people have published the errors that they 
found, so that they could be corrected?

Obviously it would have been really appropriate if they could have corrected 
them as they went, but apparently the checkers weren't even told that what 
they were checking came from Wikipedia so as to avoid bias :-)
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 