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Blog: Pete Loshin« Microsoft Wants More Open Standards? | Main | How Great is Open Source Software? » Wikipedia vs EncyclopediaJust because you pay for it doesn't mean you're getting your money's worth, as a report, Internet encyclopaedias go head to head from Nature.com demonstrates. Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. If you read an article in there and find an error, you can fix it. You can also do mischief, but Nature reporter Jim Giles reports that at least as far as science goes, Encyclopedia Brittanica Online, averaging about 3 errors per article, is only marginally better than Wikipedia, averaging roughly 4 errors per article. Wikipedia is even easier to use, since you don't have to log in.
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On the other hand, consider that according to this statistic, wikipedia is 33% more "wrong" than brittanica. While mass collaboration may provide lots of content, does the community oversight always ensure that what is being posted is of high quality?
Posted by: David Loshin | March 26, 2007 8:21 PM