At 09:47 -0600 15/12/05, slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/15/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@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
An example of a publication that is not open to open edit "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/order/print/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography
Priced at 7,500 UK pounds, it may contain errors.
"...but in the months following publication there was occasional criticism of the dictionary in some British newspapers and periodicals for reported factual inaccuracies."
I regard this statement a rather tame....