Wiki is starting to suck

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Kasz216 said:

davidwes said:

takeru51 said:

GameMusic said:
They are fools who think that being exclusionary will make them more credible, simply because traditional encyclopedias are.

 

Wikipedia has been found to be just as accurate as a traditional encyclopedia... So it would appear that whatever they're doing is working.

 please tell me this is sarcasm. If its not that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Thats like the eposide of the office where Steve Carrolls characters says, "if its on wikipedia it must be true". HAH

 

Actually that is true according to the studies done on it.  People can make stuff up in Wikipedia but it usually gets changed back relativly quickly.

Encylopedias on the other hand often have many "facts" in it turn out to be fiction before they are even released because of the unbelievable turnaround it takes to make encyclopedias.  Also, plenty of times they don't even bother to fact check because of the amount of volume they need to put in.

I think this refers to, when they compared Encyclopaedia Britannica and wikipedia about their scientific articles, when it turned out, that, in the number of articles checked (can't remember the number), both actually had 5 mistakes. Anyway, in scientific articles, wikipedia has benefit over traditional encyclopedia, since the data can be updated real fast to wiki and science is something that changes daily.