The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.Amazing what decentralized individuals can do when they work together.We'd say this is what Glenn Reynolds would call an Army of Davids.
The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy.
Wikipedia is produced by volunteers, who add entries and edit any page.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Wikipedia survives research test
The BBC reports:
