A new salvo has been fired in the perennial war over Wikipedia's accuracy. Thomas Chesney, a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Nottingham University Business School, published the results of his own Wikipedia study in the most recent edition of the online journal First Monday, and he came up with a surprising conclusion. Full Story »
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Not only does Anderson link us to Chesneys study---presented with precis and the full text---but also hooks us up with the much-debated comparison in Nature between Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, and the latters riposte. I do not find Chesneys results perplexing; and offer two examples to explain why. Wikipedias article on the late (and controversial) operatic soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is gracefully, expertly, and candidly written, analyzing not only her ... More »
Links directly to the paper, includes background information and opposing views, and explains the selected findings. It's just a shame that it can only end on such a wobble.
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