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

Thu Dec 15 15:47:47 UTC 2005

On 12/15/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... apparently the checkers weren't even told that what
> they were checking came from Wikipedia so as to avoid bias :-)

I'm afraid it would have been obvious from the writing which articles
were from Wikipedia. The EB is able to provide the facade of accuracy
because the writing is so smooth, so you don't expect to find factual
errors. In Wikipedia articles, you do, because the writing is often
very poor, so the other problems tend to jump off the page.

Sarah