Study: Wikipedia almost as accurate as Britannica
An investigation by Nature magazine compared Wikipedia's and Britannica's coverage of science and found Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in accuracy. The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three.
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