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!