"Jeremy Dunck" jdunck@gmail.com wrote in message news:2545a92c0512141256w5d0dd64fs92633cdca30a771@mail.gmail.com...
"Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopaedia. But reviewers also found many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and Britannica, respectively."
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/box/438900a_BX1.html I hope they publish more detail about this study.
Has this been written up yet?
Possible title [[en:Wikipedia: Comparison of Wikipedia with Brittannica by Nature magazine]]
Or should it live on meta?