Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica
With all the recent hoopla about Wikipedia, this artical is very interesting.
via digg:
The scientific magazine “Nature” has compared 42 articles in both the encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Experts in their field were given the task to check for factual errors. To the surprise of nature, both encyclopedias were containing similar amounts of errors.
According to Red Herring, of the 42 science-related entries analyzed in the study, Wikipedia averaged four inaccuracies, while Britannica averaged three.