At 13:43 +0000 15/12/05, Phil Boswell wrote:
"Gordon Joly" gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote in message news:p0623090dbfc711d3a29a@[192.168.116.8]...
Last Updated: Thursday, 15 December 2005, 10:42 GMT
Wikipedia survives research test
The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.
Full article at:
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;-)