[WikiEN-l] BBC News Online Story.

Sherool jamydlan at online.no
Thu Dec 15 14:39:22 UTC 2005


On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:29:42 +0100, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com>  
wrote:

>
> 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:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm
>

Neat, one nit pick though, where to they keep pulling these numbers of the  
number of contributors from? 13,000 contributors?  
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics> says there are 686,624  
users. Now granted not ALL of those have contributed (not constructively  
anyway), but still...

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