On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:16:43 +0200, Marco Krohn marco.krohn@web.de wrote:
I agree with most of what you wrote, but I think it is a mistake to believe that we have any kind of review system which is on par (wrt error elimination) with a real peer review. At least my experience is that the probability for finding a mistake in Wikipedia is by far higher than for Britannica.
Yes, and so is the probability of finding true information. The en Wikipedia has more text and articles than Britannica, and thus contains more information. Yes, some of that information in either is going to be wrong, which is why it's always useful to check on the web (or in books) for other sources of information.