1. -Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org)
Provides a "self-correcting" encyclopedia. Visitors can add or correct information through an editing window. The changes are then assessed to ensure that only appropriate and correct information stays on the site. According to a BBC News article dated February 9, 2006, "A December 2005 study by the British journal Nature found it was about as accurate on science as the Encyclopaedia Britannica." 02-06

News

1. 03-06-07 Wikipedia Under Scrutiny (ABC News)
"Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, which allows anyone in the world to contribute and edit content, has found itself in the midst of another controversy, and its critics are not at all surprised. This latest scandal, at one of the Web's most viewed sites, involves a prominent editor who forged his credentials and faked having a doctorate." 03-06
2. 05-08-07 Wikipedia to Seek Proof of Credentials (MSNBC News)
"Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves." 05-07
3. 08-18-07 Finding Organizations Originating Anonymous Wikipedia Edits (Wikiscanner)
Helps link Wikipedia edits and some organizations. 08-07
4. 08-18-07 Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits (New York Times)
"The site, wikiscanner.virgil.gr, created by a computer science graduate student, cross-references an edited entry on Wikipedia with the owner of the computer network where the change originated, using the Internet protocol address of the editor’s network. The address information was already available on Wikipedia, but the new site makes it much easier to connect those numbers with the names of network owners.

"Since Wired News first wrote about WikiScanner last week, Internet users have spotted plenty of interesting changes to Wikipedia by people at nonprofit groups and government entities like the Central Intelligence Agency. Many of the most obviously self-interested edits have come from corporate networks." 08-07

Papers

1. Citizendium, a Wikipedia Competitor (MSNBC News)
"Unlike Wikipedia, Citizendium's volunteer contributors will be expected to provide their real names. Experts in given fields will be asked to check articles for accuracy." 03-07
2. Comparison of Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica (Nature.com)
Nature Magazine carried out a peer review of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia. "The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three." 11-06
3. Comparison of Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica - A Reply By Britannica.com (Britannica.com)
Nature Magazine carried out a peer review of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia. In this article, Britannica.com contests the findings.

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