[PW] Grading Wikipedia

[David Klappholz]

I missed last week's discussion, but recall seeing a NYT(?) article 
about a year ago in which a study was described that showed 
Wikipedia's accuracy to be about that of the Britannica (sp?).

Dave


At 01:23 PM 5/2/2007, you wrote:
>As a follow-up to the Wikipedia controversy on the
>list last week, I thought I'd post a link to this
>article from the Denver Post
><http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_5786064>
>in which 5 professors from the area were asked their
>opinion of Wikipedia's coverage of topics in their
>areas of expertise. Only one of the profs gave
>Wikipedia low marks for "mediocrity."
>
>Moi? I've edited several Wikipedia pages myself, and
>am especially proud of the one on Yohogania County,
>Virginia -- a place that doesn't exist anymore, indeed
>hardly existed at all to begin with, but where I've
>lived nearly all of my life. I did a major rewriting
>of the page back in September of 2005, including
>adding links to sources, not least of which are maps
>(since much of the confusion about Yohogania is over
>what present-day areas it covered), and most of what's
>there now is still basically mine.
>
>--
>Lois Fundis lfundis at weir.net or lfundis at verizon.net
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