[Sig-bwp] NPR: Assessing Wikipedia's Accuracy

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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Assessing Wikipedia's Accuracy
[ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055388 ]

All Things Considered, December 15, 2005 · In the wake of questions of accuracy, a survey by the science journal Naturefinds that science entries in the volunteer-driven, online encyclopedia Wikipedia are "not markedly less accurate" than those found in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Nature reporter Mark Peplow discusses the survey.

Wikipedia's credibility was dealt a blow this month when John Seigenthaler -- the founding editorial director of USA Today -- pointed out that he is not a longtime suspect in the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, as Wikipedia said.

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian 
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu