Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. UPDATE: see details of how the data were collected for this article in the supplementary information. UPDATE 2 (28 March 2006). The results reported in this news story and their interpretation have been disputed by Encyclopaedia Britannica . Nature responded to these objections .
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Additional research by Declan Butler, Jenny Hogan, Michael Hopkin, Mark Peplow and Tom Simonite. Supplementary information available online at http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html
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Giles, J. Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. Nature 438, 900–901 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438900a
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