[dialo]

Just a follow-up on the irrational discounting of wikipedia: Nature did a study and found that the difference in accuracy between science articles in Britannica and Wikipedia is not that big. read here.

This is not the first comparison with similar results, here's one from freedom to tinker, and there have been other examples of Britannica's errors.

This isn't limited to Britannica, either. Any reference source will have errors in it, just like every other textual work. That's why you can never rely on one source exclusively. But the idea behind wikipedia is that the collective effort will eventually eliminate the errors.

[mduell]

I wonder if the newspaper corrected all the errors that they found in the Wikipedia (and notified EB of their errors). I think that would be the responsible thing to do.