Internet encyclopaedias go head to head

Jim Giles

Nature, 2005, vol. 438, issue 7070, 900-901

Abstract: Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. UPDATE: see details of how the data were collected for this article in the supplementary information . UPDATE 2 (28 March 2006). The results reported in this news story and their interpretation have been disputed by Encyclopaedia Britannica . Nature responded to these objections .

Date: 2005
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