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

Thu Dec 15 15:00:03 UTC 2005

At 13:43 +0000 15/12/05, Phil Boswell wrote:
>"Gordon Joly" <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote in
>message news:p0623090dbfc711d3a29a@[192.168.116.8]...
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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.
>>
>>  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]]
>
>
>

AFAIK, H2G2 was bought (software and all rights) from "The Digital 
Village" and the software is still in use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

See also

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/

which is an interesting development for the licence fee funded BBC.

Also, BBC News Online is not the same part of the BBC as BBC Online;-)

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