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Information: E Britannica vs. Wikipedia

December 15th, 2005 Jonathan

Nature published a review of 42 articles from Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, finding an average error rate of 3 per article for EB and 4 per article for WP. WP has sprung into action to first discern whether this is true and second to fix it.

One Slashdot user was quick to point out that EB lacks an article on the lightsaber and is thus qualitatively inferior.

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