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Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica | CNET News.com: ”

By Daniel Terdiman

Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: December 15, 2005, 3:35 PM PST

Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.

Over the last couple of weeks, Wikipedia, the free, open-access encyclopedia, has taken a great deal of flak in the press for problems related to the credibility of its authors and its general accountability.

In particular, Wikipedia has taken hits for its inclusion, for four months, of an anonymously written article linking former journalist John Seige”

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