On Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:41, SJ wrote:
Below is a letter that Britannica sent out today to
some of its
customers, in response to the December Nature article comparing the
accuracy of articles in Wikipedia and Britannica. A more detailed
review of the Nature study, including responses to each alleged error
and omission, is linked from the front page of
www.eb.com.
Interestingly, while I agree the study was very limited, all of the
methodological concerns Encyclopaedia Britannica raises could have also
affected the analysis of Wikipedia. In any case, the import of this
response is it took them more time to send a response to some of their
customers about the study than it took for all of the errors identified to
be corrected in the Wikipedia!