More discussion on wikipedia’s accuracy over on slashdot, where accuracy between Britannica and Wikipedia was compared:
I wonder if the newspaper people then fixed the inaccuracies in the wikipedia articles, making it 0 to 3, which would be a clear win for wikipedia?
I checked one article to see if that might be the case. In the article for “quark” the only recent edits are one that changed all occurrences of “hadron” to “hardon”, and then one that changed “hardon” back to “hadron”.
Of course if the Encyclopedia Britannica had an article on quarks that mentioned “hardons” it would take years before a correction would make its way into print. So score this as a clear win for wikipedia.